Quotes about Understanding

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.