Quotes about Understanding
Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
— Bruce Lee
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
— Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
— Bruce Lee
Love and respect. — Without respect, love cannot go long.
— Bruce Lee
Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will become clear of itself.
— Bruce Lee
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
— Bruce Lee
The devil is very sagacious. To judge by the event, he appears to have understood man better even than the Being who made him.
— Herman Melville
the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain (i.e. even while living) in the congregation of the dead.
— Herman Melville
How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish?
— Herman Melville
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
— Herman Melville
Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
— Herman Melville
No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying.
— Herman Melville