understanding Quotes

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms,... ...

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different... ...

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.