Quotes About Understanding

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides!

They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Speak after the manner of men.

Speech is the index of the mind.

They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.

A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."

A stranger's eyes see clearest.

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

"Let us agree not to step on each other's feet," said the cock to the horse.