UNDERSTANDING AND MISUNDERSTANDING

Related Subjects: Error, Mistake, Perception, Sympathy

1. I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.—Apocrypha: 2 Esdras
   

2. My understanding has forsook me, and is gone a wool-gathering.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

3. The understanding is always the dupe of the heart.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

4. I want, by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.—KATHERINE MANSFIELD
   

5. Man's best candle is his understanding.—Proverb
   

6. He that would rightly understand a man, must read his whole story.—Proverb
   

7. The more we understand individual objects the more we understand God.—SPINOZA
   

8. The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.—SPINOZA
   

9. To understand is what is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.—SUN YAT-SEN