Understanding Quotes
Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.
For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)
A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.
If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective we will be as stewards.
No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
Our challenge is not getting the Lord to speak to us; our challenge is understanding what He has to say.
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.
The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.
Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.
To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive.
Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.
Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.
Each man has to work out his own understanding of what needs to be done, and then prepare himself to take advantage of the opportunity to succeed in a big way.
Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.
If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.
Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.