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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

No one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

Truth emerges more readily from error than confusion.

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target . . . others cannot even see.

Talent is that which is in a man’s power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

The discovery of truth by slow, progressive meditation is talent. Intuition of the truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.