Quotes about Understanding
We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
— Henry David Thoreau
It often happens that a human is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
— Henry David Thoreau
is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?
— Henry David Thoreau
Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
— Henry David Thoreau
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We
— Henry David Thoreau
This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. . . . When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.
— Henry David Thoreau
The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.
— Henry David Thoreau
I need thy hate as much as thy love.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is a world of difference between knowing something to be true in your head and experiencing the reality in your life.
— Henry Blackaby
God always has a fresh and deeper truth He wants us to learn about Him.
— Henry Blackaby
while theology should inform a Christian's relationship with God, it should never take its place.
— Henry Blackaby
When Jesus raised Lazarus to life, the miracle was so spectacular many people believed in Jesus. However, some witnessed the same miracle and were motivated instead to betray Jesus (John 11:47—48). How could people witness such an event yet miss God's message? It was a matter of spiritual perception.
— Henry Blackaby