Quotes About Understanding

Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.

I guess the anthropomorphising is something I've done all my life.

You wouldn't want somebody in office who hasn't experienced life.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.

There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.

If you have a full understanding of what we're up against and the leadership of your country doesn't, well, hello. That's life in America today.

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

The experiences of life must be transformed into true comprehension.

Life's experiences should turn into real understanding.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.

I'll put into words my experience as it is unfolding now in my life... in such a way that I might find comfort in knowing that someone else has the same thoughts and experiences.