Understanding Quotes

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

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

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

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

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

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

Pause and remember - You will make it to the other side of this hardship. One day you will look back with wiser eyes, understanding and gratitude. Hang in there!

Pause and remember - Every person is going through difficult hardships and growth. Let's be more conscious of this by being more patient, compassionate and understanding.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the third?"

We don't understand each other. That's why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding.

Terrorism attacks peoples' trust in the system of their state. There is protection, but only if there is collective action and collective understanding about how to really deal with this phenomenon.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

I don't need to apologize for my behavior you need to apologize for not understanding.

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

Understanding brings control.

A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.

No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.

Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline.

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.

That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.