Quotes About Understanding

Let papers speak and beards be silent.

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about.

For the story — from Rumpelstiltskin to War and Peace — is one of the basic tools invented by the mind of man, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Fully understanding spoils the story — the best are always translucent.

To cut the Gordian knot is not the same as to untie it. Children and lunatics cut what the poet patiently spends his life in trying to untie.

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.

Hindsight — a.k.a. I was a fool, such a fool!

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.

Wink at wee faults, your ain are meikle.

Who would regard all things complacently must wink at a great many.

There is as much meaning in a wink as a word.

Experience is the father, and memory the mother of wisdom.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences...

...wisdom comes by disillusion...

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the "superiority" of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things. Each has what the other has not: each completes the other, and is completed by the other: they are in nothing alike, and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.