Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

A man hears only what he understands.

... he understands who loves.

Light; or, failing that, lightning: the world can take its choice.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

Understanding is the beginning of approving.