Quotes About Understanding

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.

to employ words is not the same as to understand what they mean. Moreover, the relation between words and their meanings is elastic. Words remain, while meanings are subject to change.

He who wishes to ponder what is beyond the Bible must first learn to be sensitive to what is within the Bible.

Two sources of religious thinking are given us: memory (tradition) and personal insight. We must rely on our memory and we must strive for fresh insight.

It is not enough to think about the prophets; we must think through the prophets. It is not enough to read the Bible for its wisdom; we must pray the Bible to comprehend its claim.

It is the Bible that enables us to know the Bible.

The way to understand the meaning of torah min hashamayim ("the Bible is from heaven") is to understand the meaning of hashamayim min hatorah ("heaven is from the Bible). Whatever taste of "heaven" we have on earth is in the Bible.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

but let us judge not that we be not judged.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn't doing the same.

Don't criticise the; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged....

September 22nd. [1860] (To Mrs. M. J. Green) Your kind congratulatory letter of August was received in due course, and should have been answered sooner. The truth is I have never corresponded much with ladies; and hence I postpone writing letters to them, as a business which I do not understand. I can only say now I thank you for the good opinion you express of me, fearing, at the same time, I may not be able to maintain it through life.

Chúng ta không nên k?t án ng??i khác ?? chính mình không b? k?t án.

??ng ch? trích h?. Vì có th?, chúng ta s? hành xá»­ nhÆ° th? trong hoàn c?nh tÆ°Æ¡ng tá»±.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

August] 26th. [1862] I am a patient man, always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.

affection for her, of the compatibility