Quotes about Understanding
A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
— Ruth Bell Graham
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
— Charles Spurgeon
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
— William Wordsworth
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
— Oscar Wilde
You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.
— Shonda Rhimes
We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.
— Thomas Monson
Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.
— Charles Spurgeon
Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
— David O. McKay
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
— Martin Luther
With malice towards none; with charity for all.
— Abraham Lincoln
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
— GK Chesterton
A lifetime's knowledge shimmers on the face of the land in the mind of a person who knows. The history of a place is the mind of an old man or an old woman who knows it.
— Wendell Berry