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Understanding Quotes
"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand."
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"You can't expect someone to understand your journey, when they've hardly lived one of their own."
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"There's nothing like the gift of understanding."
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"You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination."
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"To have seen something means it has come into one's understanding. To have known something means it has come into one's knowledge. There is a vast difference between 'seeing' and 'knowing'."
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"Love has no meaning without understanding."
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"If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love."
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"If you learn from many wise men who disagree one another,you will find that there are many wisdoms came out of truth.In the end, you must find truth and define your own wisdom."
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"Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life."
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"I tried to understand you... I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself... but I more likely become a victim on myself."
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"People who don't know how to use their minds can't really know how to use their hearts either."
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"I know that most men-not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever, and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic problems-can very seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as to oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty-conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives."
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"Those who understand will understand."
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"Be yourself to understand others."
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"A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human."
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"Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences."
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"True understanding lies beyond the desert."
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"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
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"Not everyone may not think the way you do."
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"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."
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"Love is not the primeval surge of libidinal lust that a person receives when meeting a suitable partner for the first time. Love in the truest sense of the term is born much later in a relationship, when both sides get to the know the truest selves of each other."
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"I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn't the same. It isn't knowing someone, is it? That's knowing about someone."
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"I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want."
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"If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them."
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"Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need."
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"The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all."
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"To truly understand a man, you must look at his enemies."
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"God's Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom."
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"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."
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"In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived."
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"When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person."
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"Many Christians have no understanding of God's fatherhood."
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"The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within."
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"If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it."
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"We only perceive God when we receive people."
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"To understand the kingdom love is to have changed system."
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"Sex is a form of exploration, it is asking questions and getting answer."
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"This deliberate focus and sensitivity allow you to "put yourself in another person's shoes and walk around a while" to better understand where they are coming from and what they are all about."
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"The search only ends when you finally find the one who truly gets you."
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"We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations."
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"There nearly always is a method in madness."
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"It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why."
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"There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding " one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that's based on undisputed belief on the scriptures."
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"I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them-the bad kids and the good kids and all kids-as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized."
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"The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success."
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"You wouldn't do things to hurt others if only you understood the principles of God."
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