Quotes about Understanding
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.
— Charles Spurgeon
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
— Charles Dickens
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
— Jack Kerouac
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
— Thomas Jefferson
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
— William Hazlitt
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
— CS Lewis
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
— St. Augustine
The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
— Khalil Gibran
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
— Edmund Burke
Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.
— Charles Swindoll
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
— Paulo Coelho