Quotes About Understanding

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Loving one another is half of wisdom.

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.