Quotes About Understanding

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Only after Realization you are connected with reality.

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

All pain is the same.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.