Understanding Quotes
How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.
Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.
It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.
Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.
Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.
In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
The understanding eye sees the maker’s fingerprints. They are evident in every detail ... Leave Fingerprints.
There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.
I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.
I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.
It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."
If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.
By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.
You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.
Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another pillar of your success.
When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind.
The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.