Understanding Quotes

"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about" "Conflict cannot survive without your participation" "Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves" "The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them" "A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things" "When you look in the eyes of someone and you make a genuine connection, it’s really difficult to dislike them." "We all need someone to look at us to see the real, deeply buried person underneath the surface, more than we need another person to talk." "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it" "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours" "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees " "Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed" "One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present " "The beauty of the cosmos is that it lies in the magnificent potentials of life to understand it" "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times" "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth" "When you judge another you do not define them you define yourself" "Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good." "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." "Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth" "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it."