Quotes About Understanding

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

If I give someone flowers, what will they really do with it. If I take food, the person could be diabetic... But books are a source of knowledge, I have great thirst for knowledge.

I have this thirst for knowledge that I can't ever satisfy.

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.

There is a new way of seeing him now. Because of that, there has been a lot of scholarship in Hemingway that is more thorough.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone - from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

I can't get on girls' wavelengths at all. I think we are completely different. I don't know, maybe that's the way it should be. If we could all get along occasionally though, that would be nice.