Quotes about Understanding

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

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.

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.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.