Understanding Quotes
I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life, whether I see them occasionally or not.
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding
To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.
I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.
Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.
I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
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.
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.
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.
May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.
...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.
When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.
People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.
One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.
Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
To understand the journey you have to do the walking.
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!
Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.