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The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Education is understanding relationships.

I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a child become what he or she wants to become, every expression of love toward children heals society and moves it in unexpected, wondrous new directions.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.

Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit. _x000D__x000D_You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable. _x000D__x000D_Your only job is to stay in your seat. _x000D__x000D_You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God's will.

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.