Quotes about Understanding
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
— Anonymous
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
— Stephen Covey
I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.
— Elie Wiesel
It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!
— John Lennon
Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.
— Oprah Winfrey
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
— John Keats
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
— Margaret Fuller
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
— Dag Hammarskjold
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
— Oscar Wilde
Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
— Albert Einstein