Quotes about Understanding

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

Thank you sir for your criticism. If you knew about me what I know about me, you would have written a longer letter.

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes, were the more common weapons that he used. The consequence was that his hearers always understood him. He never shot above their heads. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

Once become satisfied that a man loves you, and you will listen gladly to anything he has to say.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.