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Quotes About Understanding

my tutor is very kind, and never cross, and he will explain everything to you. But mind, when he explains anything to you, you won't be able to understand; but don't ask any questions, or else he will go on explaining and you will understand less than ever. Later when you have learnt more and know about things yourself, then you will begin to understand what he meant.
~ Johanna Spyri
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet . Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
~ Johannes Kepler
You and I ought not to die,before we have explained ourselves to each other.
~ John Adams
Compatibility, on this view, is an achievement of love, not a precondition for love.
~ John Armstrong
Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious aspects of what is really there.
~ John Armstrong
When we try to love we are not actually trying to undertake a single endeavor; rather, we are trying to do a whole range of different, and sometimes not very compatible, things simultaneously.
~ John Armstrong
Higher needs are often met in indirect ways. What we really need is time, mental space, understanding, a level of engagement with the minds and lives of others.
~ John Armstrong
Your deficiency in friendship is traceable to your fundamental friendship knowledge from your family.
~ John Arthur
Friendship with children is fundamental for seeing everything you want to see in them.
~ John Arthur
The world you live in, will become the theme of your friendships.
~ John Arthur
When you make a friend, you transport yourself into the world of another. It decides your destiny.
~ John Arthur
Friendships are older than friends.
~ John Arthur
You can be in friendship with people for a number of years without having them as your friends.
~ John Arthur
You can love without making friends.
~ John Arthur
Real best friends don't need their friends to propel them into action; they just enter your life and begin to live.
~ John Arthur
Be a friend on whose chest your friends could freely lay their heads, whose shoulders they could joyfully stand, and in whose presence they could happily run to.
~ John Arthur
Best friends know who they are in your life, and live as such.
~ John Arthur
Your friends are your world.
~ John Arthur
Friendship precedes friends.
~ John Arthur
Intimacy is a gradual process. It takes time. So wait for awhile before you call people your intimate friends.
~ John Arthur
Your friendship is you.
~ John Arthur
Your academic excellence and professional training cannot equate your knowledge of friendship.
~ John Arthur
Get to know what true friendship really is. Being a scholar doesn't make you a friendship icon.
~ John Arthur
If I know your closest friends, I can accurately predict your future.
~ John Arthur