Understanding Quotes
Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.
Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.
My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.
The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics.
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger
I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.
The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.
Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.
The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.
Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Every girl in the world wants to find the right man, someone who is sympathetic and understanding and helpful and strong, someone she can love madly.
In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?
We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.
They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused
Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.
If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.