Truth & Understanding

Category Truth

Here are some quotes related to truth along with the authors’ names:

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” – David Foster Wallace

“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.” – Ismail Haniyeh

“We learned about honesty and integrity—that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama

“If you want to have a healthy mind, you must feed your mind with truth.” – Rick Warren

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” – Laozi

“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.” – W. Somerset Maugham

“Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” – Nadine Gordimer

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.” – Blaise Pascal

“Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.” – Thomas Hobbes

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy

“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.” – Rebecca West

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” – W. Clement Stone

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.” – Swami Vivekananda

“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.” – Hunter S. Thompson

“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.” – Bob Dylan

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.” – Norman Schwarzkopf

Category Understanding

Here are some quotes related to understanding along with the authors’ names:

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The key to learning is an awareness of where you lack understanding.” – James Pierce

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.” – Carl Jung

“Self-understanding leads to inner peace.” – Maxime Lagacé

“Accepting is no substitute for understanding.” – Naval Ravikant

“Be understanding, but don’t be blind.” – Unknown

“Feeling is reactive, understanding is proactive.” – Jack Butcher

“The price of understanding is letting go of what you know.” – Maxime Lagacé

“Understanding someone is another way of loving them.” – Boii McCoy

“To understand is to know what to do.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” – J. K. Rowling

“It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.” – Søren Kierkegaard

“It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.” – Simone Weil

“Understanding starts when fear ends.” – Maxime Lagacé

“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.” – Lao Tzu

“Happiness doesn’t require practice, only understanding.” – James Pierce

“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Understanding is deeper than knowledge. There are many people who know you, but very few who understand you.” – Nicolas Cage

“O bliss of understanding, greater than the bliss of imagining or feeling.” – Jorge Luis Borges

“The better you understand something, the more simply you can express it.” – James Pierce

“Those who don’t understand your silence, will never understand your words.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.” – Lao Tzu

“Understanding is more important than memorization! Schools should teach the students how to understand, think, doubt, and question. They should be made open to imagination and creativity.” – Richard Feynman

“If we don’t understand people, we don’t understand business.” – Simon Sinek