Understanding Quotes

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

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

It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

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.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

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

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

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

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

Humility is the light of the understanding.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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

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

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?

This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

I've found that knowing the material or the policy or the facts better than anyone else in the room is so empowering - and that means fully understanding them.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.