Understanding Quotes

Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart

The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.