Quotes about Understanding
We shall understand how Father and child, the Thine and the Our, are all one, and how the heart that begins its prayer with the God-devoted Thine, will have the power in faith to speak out the Our too.
— Andrew Murray
The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs them where others only measure.
— Andrew Murray
As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth you.
— Andrew Murray
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
— Samuel Johnson
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
— Samuel Johnson
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
— Samuel Johnson
Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.
— Samuel Johnson
There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.
— Samuel Johnson
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
— Samuel Johnson
When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.
— Samuel Johnson
what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.
— Samuel Johnson