Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Understanding Wisdom No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Plato

Knowledge Information Understanding Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Love Understanding Connection Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also-if you love them enough.

George Washington

Existence Understanding Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau

Proverbs Experience Truth Understanding Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Aldous Huxley

Acceptance Self-Acceptance Parenting Understanding If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means.

Fred Rogers

Existence Understanding Mystery Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Anthony Hopkins

Time Knowledge Understanding What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Saint Augustine

Understanding Empathy Perspective Global Awareness Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

Bill Gates

Physics Observation Understanding Discovery We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

Richard P. Feynman