Quotes About Understanding

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.

See things from the boy's point of view.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.