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We shall see but little way 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! (Understanding Quotes)
Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed (Understanding Quotes)
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will? (Understanding Quotes)
He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates (Understanding Quotes)
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil (Understanding Quotes)
Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man’s understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention (Understanding Quotes)
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with (Understanding Quotes)
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use (Understanding Quotes)
Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind (Understanding Quotes)
Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? the shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task (Understanding Quotes)
The understanding, that should be eyes to the blind faculty of the will, is blind itself; and so brings all the inconveniences that attend a blind follower under the conduct of a blind guide (Understanding Quotes)
He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny is either a man of very ill morals or has no more sense and understanding than a child (Understanding Quotes)
It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, lo, God is here, and we knew him not! (Understanding Quotes)
Most men take least notice of what is plain, as if that was of no use; but puzzle their thoughts to be themselves is those vast depths and abysses which no human understanding can fathom (Understanding Quotes)
Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left to itself, can do much; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps, of which the need is not less for the understanding than the hand (Understanding Quotes)
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding (Understanding Quotes)
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and, understanding of his adversity, he would be senseless (Understanding Quotes)
Read and take your nourishment in at your eyes; shut up your mouth and chew the cud of understanding (Understanding Quotes)
It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns (Understanding Quotes)
Whenever you face something new, you revert to your own tribal ways. People ask me how I can live among cannibals, or tribes that practise female circumcision, and not tell them what’s right or wrong. I know that’s not the way to understanding. I try not to judge (Understanding Quotes)
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind (Understanding Quotes)
Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the physic predecessor of all real understanding (Understanding Quotes)
Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel (Understanding Quotes)
The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding (Understanding Quotes)
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 (Understanding Quotes)
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both (Understanding Quotes)
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment (Understanding Quotes)
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding (Understanding Quotes)
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding (Understanding Quotes)
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding (Understanding Quotes)