Understanding Quotes

Understanding is the wages of faith.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Real Understanding manifests itself as spontaneous natural and simple action, free of the depressing process of choice, pure without indecisions of any type.

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

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

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

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

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

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

Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.

Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.

We understand more than we know.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

Faith in Christ is not an exercise of the understanding merely; it is an affection of the heart. "With the heart man believeth." To those who believe Christ is precious.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.

In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.