Quotes About Understanding

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

Power is knowing your past.

As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.

Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?... He who in himself sees all things, is all things.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.

You are learned in the Word of God--And if you know His Word, you know His Will.

One of the many annoying things about being disabled is the obligation I always feel to make you feel better about your reactions to me.