Quotes About Understanding

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Love is almost never simple.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

Let us live and move in harmony. Let us grow together. Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

Luck never made a man wise.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?