Understanding Quotes

I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.

The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?

The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.

Give them a conscious understanding of how powerful and important and valuable and perfect they are.

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.

The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

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

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

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.

A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.

I don't believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted.

The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.