Abandonment Quote by Johan Huizinga

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

— Anonymous

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Mutual understanding is of critical importance. There are those who say that ‘understanding’ is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings”

— Haruki Murakami

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

— Zhuangzi

“Our understanding is conducted solely by means of the word: anyone who falsifies it betrays public society. It is the only tool by which…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.

— Epicharmus of Kos

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

— Wendell Berry

“To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

— Brian Tracy

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

— Anonymous

The essence of true understanding is something you feel, not necessary what you know. - Johnny Luckett

— Johnny Luckett