Understanding Quotes

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.

I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.

I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that they haven't got the discipline to make the right choices.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all.

One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.

Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

She was lost in her longing to understand.

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

I'm a very understanding person. That's something I was raised to be aware of - not everybody has the same shoes to fill or walks the same way or is on the same path.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

I don't think that understanding produces change. Learning produces change.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog.