Quotes About Understanding

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.