Quotes about Understanding

a good reader makes a good book

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

Sorrow makes us all children again[,] destroys all differences of intellect[.] The wisest know nothing[.]

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, — a possession for all time.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind?

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

Treat all people as if they are real, because who knows, perhaps they are.

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright, who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.