Quotes
Quotes about Understanding
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman.
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Some must be great. Great offices will have
Great talents. And God gives to every man
The virtue, temper, understanding, taste,
That lifts him into life, and lets him fall
Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill.
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither."
The understanding is always the dupe of the heart.
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditations.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding.
It is probably easier to make language appeal to the emotions - which usually means the prejudices - than to the understanding.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
If a person is obviously mentally disabled, such as having Down's syndrome or Alzheimer's, decent people exercise sympathy and understanding in their interactions. So why, if someone merely has a low IQ, is he treated with ridicule and contempt?
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
