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Quotes About Understanding

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
~ Samuel Butler
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
~ Blaise Pascal
Kindness is the greatest wisdom.
~ Author Unknown
25th Anniversary. — Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
~ Mark Twain
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
~ Stephen King, "The Body," 1982
Listen with your feelings, see with your heart.
~ Tom Brown, Jr.
Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sometimes we don't look up unless we have a reason to. And then it all becomes clear.
~ Terri Guillemets
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
~ Japanese Proverb
A disease known is half cured.
~ Proverb
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.
~ Chinese proverb
Talking to your best friend is sometimes all the therapy you need.
~ Author Unknown
Best friends don't necessarily have to talk every day. They don't even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it's like they never stopped talking.
~ Author Unknown
God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through.
~ Author Unknown
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.
~ Peter Lynch
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
~ Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.
~ Author Unknown
I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
~ Edith Wharton
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
~ Elbert Hubbard, c. 1908
The Tongue is ever turning to the aching Tooth.
~ Proverb
Scorpios are perhaps at their best when actively engaged in helping others face some momentous crisis. At such times they seem to understand everything, even though they may never have faced such a situation before.
~ Richard B. Vaughan
God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.
~ Author Unknown
No one but an aviator has a right to look down on others.
~ Elbert Hubbard