Quotes about Understanding
Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
— Samuel Johnson
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
— Samuel Johnson
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.
— Thomas Jefferson
Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?
— Walt Whitman
It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
— John Maxwell
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
— John Eldredge
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again — I dwell among the people."
— John Henry Newman
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
— John Keats