Understanding Quotes

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.

Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.

Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Little by little, Leo [Messi] and I are understanding each other better.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Why should things be easy to understand?

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

I'm going with the understanding that I've done my duty.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.

Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate