Understanding Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.

By understanding the meaning of common dreams, you can identify issues that want your attention in your waking life.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death and time elaborated in phenomenology.

We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.

When you act on your impulses to play, when you are open to the possibilities in each moment, you replace your fears with self-understanding, self-esteem, and personal strength.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

I think that's the direction we [the americans] are going to have to go, the idea of people understanding that if you see something, say something, as simple as it sounds.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save the people, you must often oppose them?

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

I do love fish, and I thought it was healthy without understanding the high mercury levels that fish like tuna, swordfish and halibut can contain.

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

A strict master will not have understanding sons.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else.

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.