Understand Quotes

People fear what they don’t understand and hate what they can’t conquer

“Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Try to keep your thoughts in the present, for the future we will never know and the past we may never understand.”

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

In every bit of honest writing in the world there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.