Quotes About Understanding

Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

When you can see the colors of the feathers, you'll also understand how you can expand your borders to infinity.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

I wondered if we could ever truly understand each other, and if not, did it matter? Maybe that was where we had been going wrong all this time, always trying to understand, to make sense, to control, to fit Iran into our own frame of reference, instead of simply accepting?

love does not mean everything will be perfect. Humans are not perfect. We mess up, argue, make mistakes. But if we're smart, we forget about those and get back to love because that's what makes life worthwhile.

If you love someone, you owe it to them to listen to what they have to say just as they owe it to you to do the same.

Meanness of spirit has no place in disagreements. It all boils down to how you love others.

As your aunts would say, 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding,'" Mac recited.

As your aunts would say, 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding,'" Mac recited. "'In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths,

Okay. Sorry," she mumbles. I move to the edge of the bed and peer into her face, looking for a sign of anything I can reason with. Her pale blue eyes are smoky, vacant.

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

When you actually know the question, the answer is every­where, and you can see it in anything you observe.

Teach me (O creator of all things) to have correct knowledge and understanding, for your wisdom is all that I desire. Speak your word in my ear (O creator of all things) and set your wisdom in my heart.

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

I do not know; nor will I vainly question Those pages of the mystic book which hold The story still untold, But without rash conjecture or suggestion Turn its last leaves in reverence and good heed, Until "The End" I read.

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

We love instinctively, but we love well because we've learned how.

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

No sé la razón de la sinrazón que a mi razón aqueja

Be what it may, I will always esteem and adore the divine genius of this Gentleman, taking from him what I understand with humility and admiring with veneration what I am unable to understand.