Understanding Quotes

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?"

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

If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don't understand the objective.

The prince in The Leopard was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health.

I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

Even the most astute chefs seek out the assistance of Celine Labaune, owner of Gourmet Attitude, because they know they can rely on her keen senses and deep understanding of the truffle trade.

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.

God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.

I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.