Understanding Quotes

Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at one that you believe these things; you analyze and discern all this.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Clarity is like casting light. Clarity allows us to see better and eases the path of understanding. And just as one light source need not deny the illumination of another but can add to it, the understanding gained through one explanation can stand to gain from another, even if it is different in approach. The truth is more exclusive...

~ Cyrus Panjvani

..i spill intothe kind of silenceonly Khalil Gibran would understand.

~ Sanober Khan

She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself, the silly ones could never understand her wisdom, whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.

~ Henry James

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear.

~ David Anthony Durham

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.

~ Jill Telford

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

~ Zhuangzi

Alex got angry at me because he said I didn’t understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn’t understand. Not then.

~ Andrew Klavan

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

~ Carla H. Krueger

In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

~ T.f. Hodge

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

~ Erich Von Däniken

True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.

~ Johnathan Jena

Relationships & personal Interactions are like having food...if it doesn't taste well, we can't eat it, no matter how beautiful it looks ~

~ Rajneesh Shrma

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

~ Courtney Milan

I ain't got no Visa, I ain't got no Red American Express, We can't go nowhere exotic, It don't matter 'cause I'm decent and Loyal.

~ Genereux Philip

A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.

~ Jessie Burton

You can't expect someone to understand your journey, when they've hardly lived one of their own.

~ Nikki Rowe

The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you “make” the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

خفض صوتك الى مستوى افكاريLower your voice, to reach my thinking level.

~ أحمد خالد توفيق

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.

~ Criss Jami

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

~ Aristotle

Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing, the way you understood yourself.

~ Margaret Atwood

There's a logical reason for everything in the universe even if we cannot comprehend, understand, or express that reason.

~ Jared Alexander

You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prepared to change your mind if someone is at hand to put you right and guide you away from some groundless opinion.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

~ Zhuangzi

1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.

~ Jessie Burton

I had to open my eyes, so I could see a new life!

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

~ Auliq Ice

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

~ Steve Goodier

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

People think monsters are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell...

~ Charles Lee

Certain things are extremely difficult to understand, such as the concept of unconditional love, perhaps it is due to mislead thoughts about God’s love for us. Assuming that we can say or do certain things and suddenly lose this love and approval. But I when I picture God I picture him standing with his arms out saying, Beth stop punishing yourself. And he says it like my dad used to say, with such great authority and assurance in his voice that I can't help but smile, and know it's gonna be ok.

~ Bethany Brookbank

It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is

~ Daniel Keyes

I think it was a sense of being completely swallowed up by nature that gave the prairie its powerful attraction.There is nothing like it in all of Europe. Even high up on a Swiss glacier one is still conscious of the toy villages below, the carefully groomed landscape of multicolored fields,the faraway ringing of a church bell. It is all very beautiful, but it does not convey the utmost escape. I believe, with the Indians, that a landscape influences and forms the people living on it and that one cannot understand them and make friends with them without also understanding, and making friends with, the earth from which they came.

~ Richard Erdoes