Quotes About Understanding

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

To uphold religious tolerance, it is very wise that an adherent of a religion should not do something forbidden in another religion in front of the adherent of the latter.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

The people of western North Carolina are wise and discerning.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

I feel like listening is a huge part of life - not only listening to people, but listening to people that you believe in, people who you think are wise.

'Tis folly to be wise.

I think you have to be wise and know your limitations and know how to work within them.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

The wise are above books.

I'd like to be very wise.

A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

I'm not very wise to many things.