Understanding Quotes
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.
I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.
No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary.
If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.
My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.
Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.
The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.
Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.
After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn in theory only.
Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.
The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.
So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?
We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.
Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.
A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.
Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.
Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.
A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.
Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.
As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.