Quotes About Understanding

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

I walk into this room All eyes on me now But I do not know the people inside Look straight through me these eyes Seeking more wisdom Than I have to give away

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.

Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God.

God doesn't need verbal language for communication.

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.

The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

What a man 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

The causes being known, the knowledge of the effects is sure to follow.