Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Clarity is like casting light. Clarity allows us to see better and eases the path of understanding. And just as one light source need not deny the illumination of another but can add to it,...

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

It’s knowing one’s … limitations … and then ignoring them.

Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.

When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created an enormous chasm between the joyeous light of the age of...

Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.

Nobody can define what exactly true love is. Some believe in it and many others don’t. If somebody tries to define it, there will be many agreements and disagreements. Especially since nowadays marriages don’t even...

But you see, Meg, just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Understanding how important slotting is to top draft picks in terms of who got what . . . and how they fall into place, this is really a timing issue,

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they...

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

We don’t have a completely level playing field, in our understanding, from the I.O.C.. We are confident that we will get there, but we are not there.

The great soul understands the small-minded.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

I don’t ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. If we will be obedient and if we are diligent,...

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

We’re seeing the rise of independent specialists who have a deep understanding of things that big companies don’t have the ability to do.

Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.

I don’t know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense...

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at...

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

Knowledge is not the vast collection of academic degrees, but the right empowerment of own open mind with an enlightenment of the wisdom to make the correct choices each time.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

No matter how hard you try, there are times when things just don’t go as planned. And, it’s not because you are doing something wrong. It is because the thing you are after is not...

Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much...

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century...

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...