Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
—Søren Kierkegaard
People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain
—Miyamoto Musashi
It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet.
—Miyamoto Musashi
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.
—Socrates
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
—Isaac Newton
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
—Henry Ford
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Reason is negative and dialectical, because it resolves the determinations of the understanding into nothing.
—Georg Hegel
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
—Plato
Understanding a question is half an answer.
—Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
—Socrates
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.
—Immanuel Kant
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
—Immanuel Kant
It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
—Immanuel Kant
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
—Immanuel Kant
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world … is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
—Immanuel Kant
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.
—Charlie Chaplin
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
—Stephen Hawking
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
—Sun Tzu
Herein appears the depth of the wisdom of God, in his adorable providence; in governing men, so as not to destroy either their understanding, will, or liberty.
—John Wesley
O may my time, my fortune, my understanding, and all my talents be more diligently improved, but may the one thing needful be the grand concern with me, and let not my heart be overcharged with lusts of other things.
—William Wilberforce
His mercy & grace are infinite & His patient understanding is beyond measure, but He will not aid men in their selfish striving after personal gain. He will not help men to attain ends which, when attained, usurp the place He by every right should hold in their affection.
—Tozer
The teaching of the New Testament is that God and spiritual things can be known finally only by a direct work of God within the soul. The true understanding of God must be by personal spiritual awareness. The Holy Spirit is indispensable.
—AW Tozer
Knowledge is power—so much we can understand, at least to a certain extent. All knowing is a triumph of the spirit over matter, a subjection of the earth to the lordship of man. But that knowledge should be life—who can understand that?
—Herman Bavinck
It was not to the unsaved that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch & pray lest we fall into this temptation by an irritable spirit under the stress & strain of life.
—AW Tozer
God has given us the Holy Spirit to illuminate our minds. He is eyes & understanding to us. We dare not try to get on without Him.
—AW Tozer