Understanding Quotes

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.

The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.

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.

Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant.

You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

You can't recover from what you do not understand.

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries

Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.

Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.