understanding Quotes

The best sign that you deeply understand something is your ability to teach it.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails... ...

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.