Quotes about Understanding
If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.
— CS Lewis
Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?
— CS Lewis
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
— GK Chesterton
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
— Henry David Thoreau
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
— Marcus Aurelius
Where there is truth, there is also light, but don't confuse light with the flash.
— Pope Francis
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.
— Rob Bell