Understanding Quotes

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding" "The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes" "Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment—the moment when a man knows forever more who he is." "In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity" "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." "Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence." "Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it" "Truth springs from argument amongst friends" "Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect." "A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge" "How it is we have so much information, but know so little?" "It will always be there—the need to connect, the need to understand, the need to deal with unbearable pain through a form of transcendence." "Anyone who tries to make love disappear from life without considering its causes is like someone who executes a judge without bothering first to find out what crime he was tried for." "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be " "I want my children to understand the world but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place" "If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn" "Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are" "By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower" "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark"