Understanding Quotes

Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.

It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

Understanding comes through communication, and through communication we find the way to peace.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding

If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.

In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.