Saint Augustine Quotes

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

When you understand things, there's no more magic.

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.