Much learning does not teach understanding.
Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
