University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can’t teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one’s soul.

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Learn to see what you are looking at.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

He was no lover in a worldly sense; the only love he knew was that of divine understanding, of taking a whole life into its depths as if they were his own. From this, the...

As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as...

I get sex. I completely get sex—even though I don’t get sex. I understand it, but I never have it.

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely...

I have a recognition dance, to acknowledge that I heard and understood you. So when Savannah says she loves me, and I reply by doing the Charleston, I’m just trying to show my love for...

yeah, yeah” and pretending to know things you don’t is right up there with one of the worst things you can do when you hire some one to help you and your career.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of...

Who can explain life? Who can understand it? Like cats, we just do what we do.

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to...

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

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the...

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope,...

Every human in this world is greedy.

You can’t expect someone to understand your journey, when they’ve hardly lived one of their own.

Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and...

If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus’ secret was His ability to see into people’s hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could...

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

I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands disclose the being.

I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of...

Whether we have happiness or not depends on the seeds in our consciousness. If our seeds of compassion, understanding, and love are strong, those qualities will be able to manifest in us. If the seeds...

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if...

My understanding is they were No. 1; they beat everybody down south the week before. I think it was a great win; our kids did a good job.

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page....

The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.

Simple —> Complicated —> Simple At first, things appear simple. As you learn more they become complicated. As you learn, even more, they become simple. Simplicity on the other side of complexity is understanding.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode...

The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution.

There is truth and knowledge beyond present understanding.

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn’t just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for...

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

To perceive is to suffer.

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

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Manlius … took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world,...

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it’s always because they know why.

She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this...

If you don’t want anyone to misunderstand you, go into yourself and thoroughly investigate and understand yourself. No one will ever misunderstand you ever again.

Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.

There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that...

No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals...

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we...