Understanding Quotes

Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

To be understanding is more important than to be right.

The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

They condemn what they do not understand.

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Being that can be understood is language.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

Listen, that you may live.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.

Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.