Quotes About Understanding

Learning without thought is labor lost.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

Toleration is the best religion.

Travel teaches toleration.

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

I have prayed in her fields of poppies, I have laughed with the men who died - But in all my ways and through all my days Like a friend He walked beside. I have seen a sight under Heaven That only God understands, In the battle's glare I have seen Christ there With the Sword of God in His hand.

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

Wisdom is only found in trudi.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

The price of wisdom is above rubies.

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the street.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.