Understanding

Quotes on understanding.

‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
- Alice Walker

Words can hypnotise and attract a reader toward religious practice (sadhana) and make him think that he understands a spiritual experience. Reading, however, only makes him more learned, while practice (sadhana) in what he read brings him nearer to truth and clarity. Fact is truth and clarity is purity.
-B.K.S. Iyengar, in Light on Pranayama

As a consumption-based society, we are used to acquiring external things versus inquiring within. We are not very comfortable with the unknown.
- Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy
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The fact that you are willing to say, ‘I do not understand, and it is fine,’ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
- Wayne Dyer

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
- Maya Angelou

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.
- Bob Marley

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino