All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
I still believe in peace, love, and understanding.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.
I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
If you’re scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.
Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.
We don’t use the term ‘working class’ here because it’s a taboo term. You’re supposed to say ‘middle class,’ because it helps diminish the understanding that there’s a class war going on.
We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
The purpose of today’s training is to defeat yesterday’s understanding.
Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.
Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.