understanding Quotes

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for... ...

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.