Quotes about Understanding
It is only faith that makes me know Him as He is. By means of it I learn more about Him in a short time than I would learn in many years in the schools.
— Brother Lawrence
That we ought to make a great difference between the acts of the understanding and those of the will: that the first were comparatively of little value, and the others, all. That our only business was to love and delight ourselves in GOD.
— Brother Lawrence
We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.
— Bruce Lee
Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
— Bruce Lee
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
— Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
— Bruce Lee
Love and respect. — Without respect, love cannot go long.
— Bruce Lee
Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will become clear of itself.
— Bruce Lee
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
— Bruce Lee
The devil is very sagacious. To judge by the event, he appears to have understood man better even than the Being who made him.
— Herman Melville
the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain (i.e. even while living) in the congregation of the dead.
— Herman Melville
How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish?
— Herman Melville