Quotes About Understanding

Segundo, Dios quiere que conozcamos la verdad acerca de nosotros mismos.

Friend, when you understand why Jesus does certain things in your life, then you will develop true insight into how greatly He cares for you.

So I began to meditate on Scripture the way he taught me. That is, I wouldn't just read the Bible—I would ask questions. "Lord God, what are You saying to me? How do You want me to apply this to my life? What is it I'm supposed to learn, Father?" This has helped

Proverbios tiene mucho que decir sobre el valor de los consejos sabios. Proverbios 13.10 declara que «ciertamente la soberbia concebirá contienda; mas con los avisados está la sabiduría». Proverbios 20.5 ofrece esta instrucción: «Como aguas profundas es el consejo en el corazón del hombre; mas el hombre entendido lo alcanzará».

Él hombre sin educación que sabe meditar en el Señor ha aprendido mucho más que aquel con mucha educación que no sabe meditar.

5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall bdirect your paths.

Science is a turtle that says that its own shell encloses all things.

That this is the quest; but that it has never been attained; but that Science has acted, ruled, pronounced, and condemned as if it had been attained.

Women have more Theory of Mind than men, which makes them nicer people – less prone to start wars or engage in egocentric monologues at the dinner table. There's no reason to restrict Theory of Mind to an ability to put oneself into another's shoes. It involves too an ability to put oneself into another's hoofs, pads or fins. Broadly, it is the ability to appreciate the interconnectedness of things –

Polanyi argued that we only truly know something—that is, have personal knowledge of it—when we can apply it to get results.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deep as we live.

Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.

Innocence and ignorance are sisters.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray...

Don't let your jealousy harden into hate.

Sometimes people will hear you better if you speak with a voice of compassion instead of authority. They long to be understood more than to be lectured.

In a world full of people who couldn't care less, be someone who couldn't care more.

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

We can't always see the scatters and tatters of a broken heart. Kindness is due to all fellow beings — we never know the invisible hurts they're enduring.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?