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.

She’s an absolute idiot!” she added with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his...

This register is the first, essential step toward understanding the Gulf of Maine as a whole ecosystem. This lays the foundation for the next step, which is to understand how these species interact with each...

But Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo said: ”President Bush’s words this morning were encouraging because they reflect an understanding of the interaction between the developing countries and the developed countries.

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of...

And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand.

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands – like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the...

I understand people’s suffering, people’s pain, more than you will every know yourself.

I don’t write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don’t. And, I can’t help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that’ll really listen to you, listen and care about what you’re saying, is something rare.

I don’t profess any religion; I don’t think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec....

Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading–in things like recipes and “reading material.” The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming....

The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the...

Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible.

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...

La nuit, tout sent bon”, disait Mondo.”C’est parce qu’on ne voit pas”, disait Thi Chin.”on sent mieux, et on entend mieux quand on ne voit pas”.