Understanding Quotes
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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.
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.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.
One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
With the understanding that you will face tough times and amazing experiences, you must also commit to the adventure. Just have faith in the skills and the knowledge you've been blessed with and go.
Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.
The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.
The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
If I lend my support to a specific cause, it has to be something that I look over and that I have a complete understanding of and it's not just some extracurricular bullshit.
In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.
There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas
Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.
To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.
The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.
The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.