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Understand Quotes by Thomas Merton
- For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
- To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be…
- We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything…
- Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in…
- Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.
- I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.
- The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.
- You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as…
- Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one…
- Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives…
- How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which…
- The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer…
More Understand Quotes
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila