Quotes about Understanding
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
— St. Augustine
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
— St. Augustine
Take up, read! Take up, read!
— St. Augustine
What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.
— St. Augustine
Hear the other side.
— St. Augustine
Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)
— St. Augustine
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
— St. Augustine
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
— Francis de Sales
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— St. Thomas Aquinas