Understanding Quotes

I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.

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.

Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

We should strive to understand the weakness of others.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.