Understanding Quotes
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?
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself an understanding of what not to do.
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.
It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.
We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.
Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.
As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?
