Understanding Quotes - Page 5

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)

The term I despise most is motivation. Motivation is an unreliable tease and isn't worth your time. Motivation is fleeting, DISCIPLINE is reliable. Cultivate DISCIPLINE and FORCE yourself to do things to better yourself. It isn't about keeping yourself motivated, it's about how to train yourself to work without it.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

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

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding.

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.

We understand more than we know.

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time-the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.

Wisdom keeps us from making foolish mistakes.

True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.

The best of your life could be the rest of your life, if you decide it will be so.