Quotes About Understanding

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.