Quotes About Understanding

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

To know the world, one must construct it

Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

Why are people so unkind?

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

The important things are always simple.

Because wisdom is innate, we can all enlighten ourselves.

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.