Quotes about Understanding
The whole journey of life is a journey of preparation... to see, to feel, to understand the beauty of what lies ahead, of the homeland towards which we walk.
— Pope Francis
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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