Understanding Quotes

Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.

Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.

There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

Peace comes through understanding

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

How does MINDEF intend to reduce uncertainties, enhance understanding, and improve coordination in the region and beyond through defence diplomacy apart from conferences and meetings?

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.