Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

What I hear I forget. What I see I remember. What I do I understand.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true if once understood.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

She was a woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that One - most new jobs are created by small businesses; Two - most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance which would render us insupportable through life.

Lets have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day - my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Come away O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move but I have no regrets about doing it.