Quotes About Understanding

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Clothe yourself with wisdom like a robe, put knowledge upon you like a crown, and be seated upon the throne of perception.'90

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

If God was small enough to understand, I reckon He wouldn't be big enough to worship.

And the King smiled down upon his little dark wife who could so wholeheartedly admire another woman.

One does not analyse a person one loves. One just loves them as they are.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

people today know a lot more about how to become a Christian than about how to be one.