Quotes about Understanding

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

We are wiser than we know.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.