Quotes About Understanding

Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

The child must teach the man.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.