Quotes About Understanding

Science teachers give their students the keys to unlocking the secrets of the world around them.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

However, belief is not the same thing as knowledge, and by deliberately avoiding comprehension of that which we refuse to understand, we confine ourselves to a darkness of our own design.

Somehow, it seemed the Jedi had failed to grasp that the Force was grander and farther reaching than even they understood it to be.

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart.

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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

Primitive does not mean stupid.

He that willeth to do shall know what he ought to do. He that doeth the thing he does know will know more. And that more done will open the door yet wider into all the fragrance of a strongly obedient life, and into a clear and clearing understanding of the Lord Jesus Himself.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

If you need those words, I will give them. I love you, Komorebi. But know this…what I feel for you is so much bigger than three words.

I'm just starting to realize I don't know you at all." "Yes, you do," came his hoarse response. "You just hate that I'm not what you need me to be.

Our eyes locked. I felt known. I felt known and loved down to my very soul.

I love you, Rogan … I could not ask you to give up who you are when it is the very reason I want you.

You're everything," he admitted, his words ragged with feeling. "You know that, right?

I feel her tears on my face. They feel the same as mine.

Doesn't take much skill to stay married. Just some patience and the common sense to know when to shut up and listen.

It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.