Understanding Quotes

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind

To grow in your passion for what Jesus has done, increase your understanding of what He has done.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

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!

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

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 didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.

True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

If you would judge, understand.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.