We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
—Carl Jung
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
—Stephen Hawking
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.
—Stephen Hawking
Whether you like it or not, whether you understand it or not, sin is what you are guilty of in the sight of this holy God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
—Georg Hegel
When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear.
One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.
—Carl Jung
When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear.
One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.
—Carl Jung
If you relate the truth with anger or passion you won’t convince anyone no matter how obvious to you the truth you’re relating is. Relate the truth with kindness and the stupidest person in the world will understand you.
—Leo Tolstoy
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
—George Orwell
This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
—Carl Jung
This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
—Carl Jung
Dogs bark at what they don’t understand.
—Heraclitus
If you understand that your central task in life is love, then when you interact with someone you won’t think about how he might be useful to you, but rather how you might be useful to him. Just do this and you’ll succeed in everything far more than if you worry about yourself.
—Leo Tolstoy
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
—Charles Dickens
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
—Heraclitus
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
—Ernest Hemingway
The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole.
—Laozi
Freethinkers use their minds without prejudice and fear to understand things that clash with their own customs or beliefs. It’s rare but essential.
—Leo Tolstoy
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
You always admire what you really don’t understand.
—Blaise Pascal
The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
—Laozi
Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
—Søren Kierkegaard
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
—Søren Kierkegaard
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
—Søren Kierkegaard
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
—Søren Kierkegaard