Quotes About Understanding

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.

He alone may chastise who loves.

Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy.

The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt.

YOUR speech is simple, my Master, but not theirs who talk of you.

Let your love see me even through the barrier of nearness.

The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy.

Where one loves, one can follow without agreeing—one can surrender oneself with eyes open.

We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth. And our unsophisticated little hearts knew well where the Crystal Palace of Truth lay and how to reach it. But to-day we are expected to write pages of facts, while the truth is simply this: "There was a king.

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as a guest.

The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena.

When we were young, we understood all sweet things; and we could detect the sweets of a fairy story by an unerring science of our own. We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth.

Tears came to my eyes. I forgot that he was a poor Cabuli fruit-seller, while I was—. But no, what was I more than he? He also was a father.

Man cannot reach the shrine if he does not make the pilgrimage. Languages are jealous. They do not give up their best treasures to those who try to deal with them through an intermediary belonging to an alien rival.

the India devoid of all politics, the India of no nations, whose one ambition has been to know this world as of soul