Quotes About Understanding

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Love me, love my dog.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.