Quotes About Understanding

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.

I understand the sacred words of the sacred souls.

Love is blind but boundless in vision.

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Teach those only willing to listen and listen to those only willing to teach

You can't always have the full picture to everything in life, you'll only learn as you make more mistakes.

The more mistakes I make, the least I judge other people's mistakes

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

Education illuminates us with the lights of knowledge and wisdom.

Wisdom is the ultimate blooms of a tree we call life.

Wisdom comes from introspection.