Quotes About Understanding

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

I do know of these,That therefore only are reputed wiseFor saying nothing.

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.

Men ne'er spend their fury on a child.

The "why" is plain as way to parish church.

A beast, that wants discourse of reason.

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?Hamlet: Words, words, words.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

She's still your mother." Meaning no matter what she's done, how much you don't understand her, you will treat her with respect. She's still your mother.

can seem very attractive to someone who has no idea at all what it really means; and

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.

By failing to observe and understand groups, we fail to see how the world actually works and instead find ourselves surrounded by "meaningless, unrelated and destructive phenomena." It's arguable that in In Dubious Battle Steinbeck's point about crowds was that the only way to understand them is to watch them and see how they behave—to, as Doc Burton puts it, see the superorganism in action.

There may be losses too great to understand That rove after you and--faint and terrible-- rip unknown through your hand.

It is all right to be simply the way you have to be, among contradictory ridges in some crescendo of knowing.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed: you may be heroic, but you will not be wise. If you have things right in your life but do not know why, you are just lucky, and you will not move in the little ways that encourage good fortune.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. - The Trouble With Reading

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them--those are you, Those are why you are in the world.

The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

We ought to bring all matters to the Lord, not only urgent ones, and discover His heart and mind on them.

Acceptance of another person is acceptance of the other as he is, without entailing any demands that he change in any empirical way. This boy is an addict, and while I would rejoice if he were freed from this affliction, that would not change or increase my acceptance of him as a person. And though I am not an addict, that makes me no better nor any worse than he. I am not his judge. I am just his friend.