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Quotes about Understanding

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
— Oswald Chambers
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
— John Calvin
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
— Frederick Douglass
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
— St. Jerome
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
— Etienne Gilson
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.
— David Ogilvy
Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.
— Thomas a Kempis
Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
— Rick Warren
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
— Audrey Hepburn