Quotes About Understanding

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there?

A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

Ah," said Lien Shu, "it is true that a blind person cannot appreciate beautiful patterns and forms, and the deaf cannot appreciate the music of bells and drums. Yet blindness and deafness do not only afflict people physically, they also exist in the minds and attitudes of people.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

The next day was much the same, including Ben eating a silent lunch with him on the corner of campus. The third day, Drew looked up at Ben at the end of their lunch. "You always know just what to say." Ben smiled. "When did you start eating sack lunches?" "When my friend did," Ben said without hesitation.

When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God.

Looking back on one's life, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.

Dr.Chaudry Abdul Majid

The best way to recognize a lie is to already know the truth, and so we need to have the truth of God's Word stored away in our hearts and minds.

The only Barrier to TRUTH is the presumption that you already have it.

According to the Hebrew understanding of the human being, we are more than just a body. We are also a soul and spirit. The "spirit" of a person can be considered the breath of life, while the soul is the eternal part of us. If our body is our computer hardware, then the soul is our software, and the spirit is the electricity that gives the whole thing life.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

The best Bible teaching is not that which dazzles people with the profound intellect of their teacher, but that which puts its truth squarely in their hands.