Understanding Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind. Be understanding.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

The key to understanding the Bible is Jesus Christ.

Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance.

I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

I can always forgive where I understand.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.