Quotes on “understanding”

Then why do you want to know? Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated.

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

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

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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

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. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

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. 26, 2005]

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.

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

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

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.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.