Understanding Quotes

To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

To understand is to forgive.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

True understanding is the spur of genius

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)

I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness.

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.