Quotes About Understanding

No one can truly know Christ unless they follow him in life.

What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.

Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.

Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.

There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.