Understanding Quotes

Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.

Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

There is no better therapy than understanding.

The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.

If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

You can't live principals you can't understand.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.