Quotes on understanding

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”

Hayley Williams

“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”

Anaïs Nin

“Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

Joseph Fort Newton

“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”

Sigmund Freud

“She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not to understand her. That's what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand . She knows impossible. She just wants you to understand . Everything else is negotiable.”

Neal Stephenson

“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”

St. Augustine of Hippo

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

Meister Eckhart

“None of us can choose where we shall love...”

Susan Kay

“When you say I and my too much, you lose the capacity to understand the we and our.”

Steve Maraboli

“There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.”

Shannon L. Alder

“Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.”

Joss Whedon

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

Mitch Albom

“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”

Zora Neale Hurston

“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”

Anna Wintour

“I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.”

Craig Silvey

“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”

Shannon L. Alder

“This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;”

Cristiane Serruya

“Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society”

Mohadesa Najumi

“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”

Eric Hoffer

“The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the thoroughness of his understanding.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you understood him, it would not be God.”

St. Augustine of Hippo

“God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand.”

Steve Maraboli

“You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.”

Shannon L. Alder

“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.”

Alberto Caeiro

“One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.”

Criss Jami

“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”

Criss Jami

“Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.”

Steve Maraboli

“It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.”

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

“It is that truth sometimes feels like cruelty to hear, makes it no less the truth.”

Gillian Duce

“It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”

Khalil Gibran

“There is truth and knowledge beyond present understanding.”

Bryant McGill

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

Albert Einstein

“Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.”

Amit Ray

“Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.”

Criss Jami

“Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.”

Suzy Kassem

“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

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You have to understand yourself before you can understand anything else.”

Amy Zhang

“It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.”

Alaric Hutchinson

“To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time”

Sunday Adelaja

“People who are certain about everything on this planet have always left me feeling uneasy.”

Stephen Nothum

“Intelligence makes you smug, understanding makes you humble.”

Abhijit Naskar

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”

Shannon L. Alder

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness. So there is a possibility that the poems are received and understood differently when they enter into readers’ sphere.”

Suman Pokhrel

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness.”

Suman Pokhrel

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable or not to man.

Galileo Galilei