Quotes About Understanding

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

The right word at the right time stops wars, cures heartaches, mends bridges, sweeps away barriers. The wrong word is the dropped match that lights a forest fire. 

We find in silence and body language the shadow of truth.

It is a curse not speaking languages and in a broken world more important than ever before.

A few words in a stranger's language reminds us of our shared humanity.

Body language is good enough to express yourself.

Companionship accelerates caring and compassion even for those people who are not so closed to the one being loved.

Do not just jump into the water when you cannot clearly see everything beneath the surface. Eyes are easily deceived what instinct can only sense.

Do not turn your back on those who have misjudged you for no good reasons. If you cannot love them back for being so cruel and mean, send them a note of gratitude to let them feel your expression of humility.

Love is an offering, not a souvenir or an investment for personal interests. If thou loves only thyself, then thou doesn't know the definition of the word.

Many people want to talk at the same time when no one listens. When one talks, everybody leaves.

People of the world will never know everything about you. What is more important is for you to take some time to know everything around you... and learn from them.

Stubbornness is not the opposite of leniency, but the extension of tolerance.

Too much love is expressed in hatred. Don't let jealousy overpower love.

An elementary pupil was asked by the teacher what to give her mother on Mothers' Day. She said, My name... because my mother never saw or knew me after giving birth to me.

Being unripe for any job and not accepting it is understandable. Being ready for any job and not accepting it is permissible. Being unconfident for any job and accepting it is divisible.

Do you need a heartfelt-response for anything?... Use your heart in questioning.

There are many jobs in the world that require too much walking and talking, not listening. You can do the walking by just talking. But not talking while walking. Listening is bound somewhere.

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

We all die uneducated. But at least we will not feel quite so lost, so bewildered. We will have disenthralled ourselves from the merely contemporary. We will understand something—not much, but something—of our position in space and time.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.

Men must know their limitations.