Quotes about Understanding
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
— Leo Buscaglia
It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
— Mark Twain
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
— CS Lewis
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
— St. Augustine
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
— Pablo Picasso
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
— William Barclay
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
— George Eliot
A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
— Robert Frost
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
— Oswald Chambers
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
— Martin Luther
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
— Cicero