Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Scott Card

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

We got a little better understanding of their offense.

You can never really understand it until you've experienced it.

Joss Stone

Well, I don't really understand how you can do that.

We all have arguments with our teenagers, you know? I don't understand this.

Wes Walz

We all understand that it's something that could happen. I don't think anyone's untouchable in our room.

Stephen Jay Gould

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

There's always been the understanding that a (tax break) could come into play.

I understand the manufacturers don't want the supplier network, and I can understand why.

Princess Diana

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will ever know yourself.

I understand why they did what they did,

Bob Beauprez

I understand what you're against, but I don't know what you're for.

I understand we all take it for granted,

We will never understand this until we get to heaven,

Richard Dawkins

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Russell Baker

Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language.

Troy Perry

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

Rebecca Solnit

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

Rick Wakeman

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

Meher Baba

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

Mary Catherine Bateson

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Pope Francis

Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love.

Peter Mullan

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

Primo Levi

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry...

Plutarch

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.

Phillips Brooks

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Philip Yancey

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

Polykarp Kusch

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.