Quotes About Understanding

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.

It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you.

The love to Wisdom is getting closer to the own bright path.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.