Quotes About Understanding

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn't get who we really are.

If you want to be victorious in all your endeavors, then don't lean on your own understanding or to your own devices or innovations. Instead, in all your ways acknowledge the Lord, and He will direct your path.

How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV).

He wants you to offer hope to those being crushed and struggling to understand.

No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he builds on knowledge already achieved and engages in a movement of advance. But it is one of the worst characteristics of theological study, whether in biblical interpretation or in dogmatic formulation, that every scholar nowadays thinks he must start all over again, and too many give the impression that no one ever understood this or that until they came along.

Until you take a walk through in their shoes, you'll have no idea where and how much they hurt in their journey.

Those who dislike animals (and more specifically those who never had a pet) will never understand the complete joy a pet brings to a soul, and, the pet-less person will never truly understand the meaning of unconditional love.

When a battle of wits begins between two people, the smarter of the two will concede knowing that the other person is unable to see any point of view other than their own.

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.

No se puede comprender el zen a través de los libros y conferencias. Se trata de descubrir en nosotros el origen de la vida manifestada. No podemos nutrirnos de la imagen de la manzana, ni podemos saber sin tocarla si el agua está caliente o fría.

You've said that even if God existed you could not know the mind of God, for that would be a sacrilege from any religious perspective. Divinity is divinity only to the extent that it exceeds the bounds of human understanding, you said. That was one of the statements that made me think of accosting you here. Well, perhaps, happiness is like that too: we cannot really understand the happiness of other people. Or their sorrow.

The Savior was no ivory-tower observer, no behind-the-lines captain... The Savior was a participant, a player, who not only understood our plight intellectually, but who felt our wounds because they became his wounds.

Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.

Most of our sins toward those who are close to us are due to the fact that we become insulted and hurt over nothing.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.

Silence speaks when words can't.

I'm not sarcastic. I'm just intelligent beyond your understanding.

Silence is true wisdom's reply.