Quotes
Quotes about Understanding
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts...
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understandingâthat existence is a struggle.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Consider your own life-how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and anxiety? Surrendering your head to your heart in those moments will lead you to balance and fulfillment. As you listen to your spirit, peace follows. So follow your spirit. Build your foundation in your heart. Love must be your innermost and spontaneous response towards every person you encounter. Say to yourself inside, "I just love." Use these words as a key to start the engine running in your heart and watch life brighten with new love and understanding. Surrender to your new awareness and let love unfold the purpose of creation to you. -Sara Paddison.
For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.
If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
For old age is not honored for length of time, or measured by number of years; but understanding is gray hair for anyone, and a blameless life is ripe old age.
To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.
Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
