Oswald Chambers Quotes

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

We are wiser than we know.

The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.

You can't change what you don't understand.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

How slowly one comes to understand anything!

When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.

You can't recover from what you do not understand.

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.