Quotes About Understanding

we are forever getting confused into thinking that scripture is mainly about what we are supposed to do rather than a picture of who God is.

The gospels tell us that knowing where this gift came from, who his people were, isn't going to help us much. If you want to know about Jesus, if you want to know him, you've got to meet him on the road.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

El Buda comprendió que nuestro sufrimiento no es un mero producto de la casualidad, sino que tiene una causa, como la tienen todos los fenómenos. La ley de causa y efecto —kamma— es universal y fundamental a la existencia. No hay causas que caigan fuera de nuestro control.

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture

We may give more offense by our silence than even by impertinence.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Understanding of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

Boys are always inarticulate where their deepest feelings are concerned; however much they may desire it they cannot express kind and sympathetic feelings.

revelation hit me like an ice-water enema.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Although the truth exists objectively and independently of us, we can never be absolutely certain we grasp it.

As a result of overly reactive posturing toward an unbelieving world we sometimes breed our own worst understandings of the Bible.