Understanding Quotes

Gnostics can awaken to the real state of Illumination only through the understanding and elimination of dreams.

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

If each one of us starts thinking, learning, and understanding more about water and the fact that we are water-based ourselves, then we can start to love, thank, and respect water in our daily lives.

To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

Education is understanding relationships.

If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.