Understanding Quotes - Page 11

Understanding is not absolutely final.
What's now right could be wrong later.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you.

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.

We always vilify what we don't understand.

People fear what they do not understand.

It's harder to be afraid of something you understand

Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading-in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you can hope to do the other, but you don't do the other simply because you do the one.

Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.

when you pick a flower, you become so besotted in its beauty; you dare not judge how it became that way, let it be the same lesson for humans; Spread your light, not your pain.

Beauty is something that changes your life, not something you understand.

Cherish the beauty and cherish the pain, both will give you experience and you will never be the same

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.

Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.