Understanding Quotes

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Aristotle
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone
- Truth
- Always
- Ignorance

There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

Desmond Tutu
The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.

Malcolm X
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein
- Peace
- Force
- Kept
blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

Lucille Clifton
- May
- Fear
- Eyes
We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven’t devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

Warren Bennis
- True
- Society
- Knowledge
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Oprah Winfrey
- You
- Understanding
- Fame