Quotes About Understanding

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.

as the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves.

The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.

If you know where you are, you do not know how fast you are moving, and if you know how fast you are moving, you do not know where you are.

They excuse themselves, saying they are bored because they are not loved: No! They are bored because they do not love; because they have denied love.

The lover of God never knows the words "too much." Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.

The very word mercy is derived from the Latin miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another's unhappiness.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

It is possible to love more than we know. A simple person in good faith may have a greater love of God than a theologian and, as a result, a keener understanding of the ways of God with the heart than psychologists have.

This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.

The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.

Like train announcers, they know all the stations, but never travel. Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

Truth never appeals to us unless it is personal.

As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.

We learn to speak through listening, and we grow in love of God through listening.

There were only two classes of people who heard the cry Christmas night: shepherds and wise men. Shepherds: those who know they know nothing. Wise men: those who know they do not know everything. Only the very simple and very learned discovered God - never the man with one book.

Pain is sacrifice without love. Sacrifice is pain with love. When we understand this, then we shall have an answer for those who feel that God should have let us sin without pain:

Do not postpone relationship with this law simply because you cannot fathom its mystery intellectually.