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Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something. "The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action." Olivier frowned. "So?" "Dear boy, I must tell you a secret." "What?" "I do believe it is wrong. ↗


— Iain Pears


#comprehension #philosophy #right #understanding #virtue

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ↗


— Baruch Spinoza


#attain #because #being #free #highest

If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. ↗


— Russell Page


#green-thumb #growth #understanding #verdant #education

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors. ↗


— Maya Angelou


#education #knowledge #life-lessons #understanding #education

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. ↗


— Samuel Johnson


#effort #frustration #respect #understanding-others #education

There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice. ↗


— Richelle E. Goodrich


#richelle #richelle-goodrich #truths #understanding #words

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else. ↗


— John Gribbin


#discovery #life #particles #quantum-mechanics #quantum-physics

The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted them, the influences that warped them. And when you forgot yourself and saw the others with pitying comprehension, saw their tortured motives, a white, healing peace descended upon you. Your betrayal became an impersonal one, like a bridge giving way when you crossed it, lightning, a motor collision--you were in the way and you were damaged--that was all. It wasn't meant for you. When you understood, you were released into a new freedom and wisdom. ↗


— Mary Schumann


#wisdom #freedom

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive. ↗


— Adam Gopnik


#life #time #understanding #freedom

I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn’t decipher. ↗


— Gloria Whelan


#belonging #friends #friendship #understanding #friendship






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