Simple Understanding Quotes

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

There are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of.

I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.

I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.

No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities.