Quotes About Understanding

Our days are happier when we give to people a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Girls are like cell phones, they like to be held and talked to, but press the wrong button and you're disconnected. Guys are like buses. If you miss that one, another will be along soon.

Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self, so therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous

How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and it was only later, when I was older, that I began to climb trees

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Ignorance is the peace of life.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.