Understanding Quotes

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds.

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.

Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

If you have a solid friendship before dating, there's this understanding that you can be just youBut you should still have fun hooking up!

I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved.

Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.

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

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.

Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

Seek first to understand before being understood.

Understanding is the reward of faith.

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.

The only way to change is by changing your understanding.

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.

I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

Does nobody understand?

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

You have to acquire a personal peace of mind which comes with understanding.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

The future of marketing isn't big data, it's big understanding.