Quotes About Understanding

There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

To find what you are looking for, you must first forget what you are looking for!

To kill your enemy is not a victory; but to make your enemy your friend that is a victory!

To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

Universe is blind; it cannot see us; we must find a way to show ourselves to it and science is the way to open the eyes of the universe!

We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.

We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.

We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!

You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!

You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!

You have always the same view from your window! For different views, visit other houses! And for different ideas, visit other minds!

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

The note in the quill was intended for the girl, and it read, 'Yes and yes and yes.' Yes I love you, yes I miss you, and yes I know and remember that you do, too. For in her last missive she had written 'No and no.' That is to say, No I do not want anyone other than you, and no I do not manage to sleep at night.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

You should not imagine that your reason can evolve to the extent of understanding God. Rather, if God is to shine divinely within you, your natural light cannot assist this process but must become a pure nothingness, going out of itself. Only then can God enter with his light, bringing back with him all that you have renounced and a thousand times more, including a new form which contains all things in itself.

God is equally near to everything and every place and is equally ready to give himself, so far as in him lies, and therefore a person shall know him aright who knows how to see him the same, under all circumstances.

It is the nature of the Word to reveal to me what has been hidden.

they do him wrong who take God just in one particular way. They take the way rather than God' (Sermon 19).

If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour.

After about twenty years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.