Soren Kierkegaard Quotes about Understanding

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In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you

In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Learning, Order, Understanding

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

Soren Kierkegaard

Understanding, Duty, Humans

The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1847.

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.

Soren Kierkegaard

Men, Understanding, Suffering

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Soren Kierkegaard

Inspirational, People, Understanding

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Soren Kierkegaard

Understanding, Trouble, Paradox

"Journals". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Harper (1847), 1959.

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

Soren Kierkegaard

Understanding, Facts, Unexpected

Fear and Trembling "Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration" (1843)

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Soren Kierkegaard

Silence, Understanding, Divinity