Quotes about Understanding
The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.
— Pope John Paul II
Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.
— Tony Evans
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
— Albert Einstein
A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.
— Ayn Rand
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
— Booker T. Washington
Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.
— CS Lewis
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.
— Carl Jung
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
— Carl Jung
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
— Virginia Woolf
Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.
— Charles Spurgeon
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
— GK Chesterton