Quotes about Understanding
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
— Mark Twain
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
— Mark Twain
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
— Mark Twain
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
— Mark Twain
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
— Mark Twain
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
— Mark Twain
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
— Mark Twain
Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
— Mark Twain
I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.
— Mark Twain
If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.
— Mark Twain
I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.
— Mark Twain
One learns people through the heart, not through the eyes or the intellect.
— Mark Twain