Essential Understanding Quotes

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.