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Quotes About Understanding

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
~ James Lee Burke
The primary wisdom is intuition.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
~ Heraclitus
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
~ Coventry Patmore
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
~ George Santayana
Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.
~ Adi Da
Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge
~ Dan Millman
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
~ David Hume
Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
~ Christopher Paolini
Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.
~ John Tillotson
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
~ Plato
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
~ Cullen Hightower
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
~ Josh Billings
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
The most complicated skill is to be simple.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
~ Barry White
We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
~ Blaise Pascal
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
~ Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
~ David Lloyd George
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear
~ Zhuangzi
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
~ James Thurber
A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
~ Dalai Lama