Quotes About Understanding

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.

Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.