Understanding Quotes
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.
The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.
The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.
Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.
Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?
Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
Understanding who we are, where we came from, and why we are upon the earth places upon each of us a great responsibility both to learn how to learn and to learn to love learning.
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.
I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.
Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.
Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.
Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.
The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.
Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering
I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.
The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.
The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.
If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.
The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.
It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.
A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.