Quotes About Understanding

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Hit the nail on the head.

There is no wisdom save in truth.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

The head thinks. The heart knows.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.