Quotes About Understanding

When you get a little older you get a little wiser.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

I think I've got wiser.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

As you get older, you do try to be a bit wiser.

The older you get, the wiser you get, and you realise there's no need to blow a top over things.

In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone.

I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.

Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

I'm very shy. I wish more people believed me when I say that.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

I just wish that people were kinder.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.