Quotes About Understanding

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

The Chinese nation has always pursued a life in harmony with other nations despite differences.

I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root of things.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

Sometimes in real life, people can be a bit too unaccepting.

Faith is learned through life.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.