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Quotes About Understanding

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
~ Guy Finley
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
~ Peter Abelard
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
~ William James
The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
~ William Davenant
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
~ Madame de Stael
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
~ Heraclitus
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
~ Nyogen Senzaki
When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
To understand is to perceive patterns.
~ Isaiah Berlin
True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is not enough. Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom.
~ John Grinder
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
~ Roger Bacon
There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.
~ Vincent de Paul
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.
~ Isocrates
I observe and remain silent.
~ Elizabeth I
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
~ Hugo Grotius
Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.
~ Jean Vanier
To generalize is to be an idiot.
~ William Blake
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
~ James Gleick
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.
~ Jay Abraham
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
~ Francis Bacon
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
~ Diogenes of Sinope
No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.
~ Adoniram Judson