Quotes about Understanding

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book;… in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Don't limit God to fit in the way that you think that He is going to speak, because just about the time that we think we have Him figured out, He will oftentimes speak to us in another way. God wants us to be in tune with him, and not just in tune with one of the ways that He gives those words.

You could tell a lot about someone by listening to him talk about his enemies.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.