Quotes about Understanding
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
— Samuel Johnson
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
— Samuel Johnson
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.
— Thomas Jefferson
Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?
— Walt Whitman
It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
— John Maxwell
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
— John Eldredge
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again — I dwell among the people."
— John Henry Newman
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.
— John Keats