Quotes about Understanding
Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.
— Samuel Beckett
Words are but the signs of ideas.
— Samuel Johnson
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
— Samuel Johnson
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
— Samuel Johnson
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
— Samuel Johnson
My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.
— Samuel Rutherford
Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
— Albert Einstein
The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths.
— Lysa TerKeurst
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
— Shirley Chisholm
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
— Abraham Lincoln
We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.
— CS Lewis