Quotes About Understanding

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

I feel like there are very few times in your life when you know what you have when you have it.

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

So the Warrior fights the Good Fight and he helps others, even though he does not quite understand why.

Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown.

I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it.