Understanding Quotes

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

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

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

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

Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.

If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

Meditation is re-discovering the inner Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God lies in our understandings and wisdom.

When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.

I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

You can do marvels and miracles if you have developed the understanding of love.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

It's within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.