Quotes about Understanding

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another, help, instruct, and admonish one another.

If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

Bear patiently your exile and the dryness of your mind. The time will come when I will make you forget these painful moments and you will enjoy inward quietness. I will open the Bible for you and you will be thrilled by your new understanding of my truth.

Quickly enough we feel and reckon up what we bear at the hands of others, but we reflect not how much others are bearing from us.