It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
Joseph ConradStichwörter: knowledge self understanding denial
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
John RuskinStichwörter: knowledge inspiration light understanding enlightenment sight
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.
Emily GiffinStichwörter: growing-up relationships understanding endings adolescence goodbyes
Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.
Ron HallStichwörter: life understanding
The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: life understanding personality intellect
There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. If we will be obedient and if we are diligent, our prayers will be answered, our problems will diminish, our fears will dissipate, light will come upon us, the darkness of despair will be dispersed, and we will be close to the Lord.
Robert D. HalesStichwörter: understanding prayer jesus-christ obedience heavenly-father
I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.
Nicholas SparksStichwörter: friends moving-on understanding
And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other.
Richard MitchellStichwörter: literature understanding culture knowing comparing
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding
Donna Jo NapoliStichwörter: knowledge learning understanding bound
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
W.G. SebaldStichwörter: understanding delusion order
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