Quotes About Understanding

You are what you read.

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!

I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. 

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Those who go beneath the surface, do so at their peril.

I don't know who God is but if I meet Him anytime soon I'm going to get Him in the corner until He tells me the truth.

Know your enemy, know yourself.

We have words but sometimes they're not enough.