Quotes About Understanding

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Faith is not an understandable thing, but a thing to grow.

Words are the map not the territory, they are the finger pointing towards the moon not the moon itself.

We may agree that genocidal violence cannot be understood as rational; yet, we need to understand it as thinkable.

Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be.

Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change.

I love talking to you, even if I have nothing to say.

Letters are restless, hungry for an image, and the image is thirsty for a meaning.

Peace to the hint of sadness in your eyes.

There must be a secret. There must be an ongoing secret for love to remain a surprise and a gift.

Who am I to say to you what I'm saying?

You are struck with a sour feeling of regret for a mistake you did not commit: You are not responsible for what happened.

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.

I guess if everyone was blind, and you tried to describe vision to them, it would sound crazy and made up.

Alexander Aphrodisius said that there are three causes which prevent men from discovering the exact truth: first, arrogance and vainglory; secondly, the subtlety, depth, and difficulty of any subject which is being examined; thirdly, ignorance and want of capacity to comprehend what might be comprehended.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it - without having regard to any religion or opinion.

Answer a fool according to his folly" (Proverbs 26:4).

According to his opinion, man should only believe what he can grasp with his intellectual faculties, or perceive by his senses, or what he can accept on trustworthy authority. Beyond this nothing should be believed.

This is self-evident.