Quotes About Understanding

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

a problem well put is half solved.