If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Many admire, few know.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

They know enough who know how to learn.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.