Quotes About Understanding

To interpret Nature is not to improve upon her: it is to draw her out; it is to have an emotional intercourse with her, absorb her, and reproduce her tinged with the colors of the spirit.

One of the best things I did during my single years was read books and listen to tapes on marriage. (You can't be too conspicuous, of course.) I learned so much about what makes good marriages work that it changed why I dated, how I dated, and even whom I dated.

Someone with whom you can spend the whole day and never feel bored or lonely. Someone who is the first person you want to tell when something exciting happens to you. Someone you really like.

We are too small, all but a few of us, to hold more than a little of the truth.

It takes wisdom to know what we don't know

How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

It looked like the beginning of a warm relationship based on a common lunacy.

My mom once told me, back when I was a kid, that I would never understand girls unless I understood the fear of being lonely and alone. She said no girl would ever understand boys unless she understood the fear of being dishonored and defeated.

Is ignorance so hard to bear, then? There is so very much in life we do not know … .

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

Composing's one thing, performing's another, listening's a third. What can they have to do with one another?

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God's essence when it cannot even get to its own?

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.

True and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

God] does not bind the ancient folk to outward doctrine as if they were learning their ABC's.

We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity. And

for when any one understands this Epistle, he has a passage opened to him to the understanding of the whole Scripture.

it is the peculiar privilege of the Church, to know what the   Divine judgments mean, and what is their tendency.

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any books however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.