understanding quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
66
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
613
"The more you read without thinking, the more you think you know a lot but the more you meditate, the more you see that you know very little."
712
"Common sense is not so common."
722
"True love is born from understanding."
175
"We are entering a new world. The technologies of machine learning, speech recognition, and natural language understanding are reaching a nexus of capability. The end result is that we’ll soon have artificially intelligent assistants to help us in every aspect of our lives."
300
"Metaphors contribute to a greater understanding of software-development issues in the same way that they contribute to a greater understanding of scientific questions."
332
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
972
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
1059
"What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?"
1070
"For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother."
1090
"Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall."
1095
"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."
1173
"I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!"
1186