Understanding Quotes

To perceive is to suffer.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

The correct understanding of Karate and its proper use is Karate-do. One who truly trains in this do [way] and actually understands Karate-do is never easily drawn into a fight.

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

Understanding the fact that we are essentially water is the key to uncovering the mysteries of the universe.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.

Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.

Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.