Understanding Quotes

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge" "How it is we have so much information, but know so little?" "It will always be there—the need to connect, the need to understand, the need to deal with unbearable pain through a form of transcendence." "Anyone who tries to make love disappear from life without considering its causes is like someone who executes a judge without bothering first to find out what crime he was tried for." "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be " "I want my children to understand the world but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place" "If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn" "Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are" "By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower" "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark" "We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void." "Judge not before you judge yourself" "To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think." "Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance" "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."