Quotes about Understanding

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.