Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
John Calvin

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus Aurelius

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

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. Eliot

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

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal

You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blaise Pascal

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
Jackie Kennedy

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey

A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.
George W. Bush

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Alan Watts

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Marianne Williamson