Quotations

Understanding

Thinking often sets off deep charges of understanding.

All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. [William Hazlitt]

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it can't understand, and what those things are. [Soren Kierkegaard]

Let great understanding bring fit control.

Understanding is helped on and up when the mind listens completely - your whole attention to it.

We can become slaves to things we don't understand [Cf. Vernon Howard]

In nightly sleep something loveable happens. He is given free rides on dreams and visions and may wake up refreshed whether he recalls his dreams or not, whether he figures out their essential hints of adjustments at once or not at all.

You need to possess things you find loveable.

To become good at yoga is also to glide into not-thinking levels.

Man know much more than he understands. [Alfred Adler]

Where I am not understood, maybe something very useful and profound is couched underneath. [With Jonathan Swift]

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