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Quotes About Understanding

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
~ Francis Quarles
In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.
~ Samael Aun Weor
The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.
~ Frederick Lenz
Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One day it's all going to be clear. It's all going to make sense. You're going to be able to say, "So that's why God allowed that in my life!" Until then, God wants you to trust him.
~ Rick Warren
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom
~ Bertrand Russell
Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.
~ Herbie Hancock
Psychic phenomena does not mean wisdom; it only means mental understanding of the relationship of the outer world to the inner world.
~ Drunvalo Melchizedek
Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.
~ Rajneesh
The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.
~ E. O. Wilson
Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience
~ Joshua Harris
We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.
~ William Bell
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.
~ Mason Cooley
Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
~ William James
The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens, Hard Times
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
~ Theodore Roosevelt
And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.
~ Stephen King, The Waste Lands