understanding Quotes

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.

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is... ...

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me."

"But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference."

"Truths may clash without contradicting each other."

"That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups."

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."