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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Now a days to be intelligible is to be found out.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with out understanding.
The eye of the understanding is like the eyes of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
True fortitude of understanding consists in not suffering what we do know to be disturbed by what we do not know.
The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
It is the same with understanding as with eyes; to a certain size and make just so much light is necessary, and no more. Whatever is beyond, brings darkness and confusion.
The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
A man of understanding finds less difficulty submitting to a wrong headed fellow, than in attempting to set him tight.
It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.
The light of the understanding humility kindleth, and pride covereth.
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits of a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he units with.
I know no evil so great as the abuse of the understanding, and yet there is no one vice more common.
I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.
No one knows what strength of parts he has till he has tried them. And of the understanding one may most truly say, that its force is generally greater than it thinks till it is put to it. Therefore the proper remedy is, to set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Angli-Irish satirist.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer, writer.
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933) British author.
Now a days to be intelligible is to be found out.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung (1875-1961) Swiss Psychiatrist.
It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with out understanding.
Rochefoucauld.
The eye of the understanding is like the eyes of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
Bacon.
True fortitude of understanding consists in not suffering what we do know to be disturbed by what we do not know.
Poley.
The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
Rochefoucauld.
It is the same with understanding as with eyes; to a certain size and make just so much light is necessary, and no more. Whatever is beyond, brings darkness and confusion.
Shaftesbury.
The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Locke.
A man of understanding finds less difficulty submitting to a wrong headed fellow, than in attempting to set him tight.
Rochefoucauld.
Jeremy Taylor.
The light of the understanding humility kindleth, and pride covereth.
Quarles.
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits of a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he units with.
Burke.
I know no evil so great as the abuse of the understanding, and yet there is no one vice more common.
Steele.
I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.
Junius.
No one knows what strength of parts he has till he has tried them. And of the understanding one may most truly say, that its force is generally greater than it thinks till it is put to it. Therefore the proper remedy is, to set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.
Locke.
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