Quotes about Understanding

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Life is our dictionary

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.