Quotes about understand
understanding unraveling metaphor
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. Max Black
understanding world body
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
understanding
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being. Marina Abramovic
understanding growth intellectual
Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding. Maria Montessori
understanding brain kind
If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right? Edward Boyden
understanding may opponents
Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and of modern science are both needed to reach a full understanding of human nature and the conditions of human satisfaction. The ancients may have known little about biology, chemistry, physics, but many were good psychologists. Jonathan Haidt
understanding trying littles
I've been trying to catch up to it. Just trying to get with it, feel behind it a little bit, but that's good actually, probably. That way, I'm still sort of understanding it. Justin Vernon
understanding deceit elements
The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of deceit in selling the photographs as such Julie Burchill
understanding way sometimes
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. Richard Dawkins
understanding three conviction
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. Richard Whately
understanding storm sound
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. Richard Baxter
understanding bottles tables
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding. Russell Baker
understanding trying actors
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. Ruben Santiago-Hudson
understanding important culture
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. Troy Perry
understanding magic enemy
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. Rick Riordan
understanding territory ends
I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other. Rebecca Solnit
understanding secret way
The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place. Rick Wakeman
understanding worship devotion
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. Meher Baba
understanding looks metaphor
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. Mary Catherine Bateson
understanding needs world
Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love. Pope Francis
understanding gains sometimes
Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding. Peter Mullan
understanding tables matter
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... Primo Levi
understanding aging increase
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging. Plutarch
understanding want able
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. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
understanding obedience
Obedience completes itself in understanding. Phillips Brooks
understanding true-understanding exposed
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish. Philip Yancey
understanding world may
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. Polykarp Kusch
understanding slave
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand. Vernon Howard
understanding negative emotion
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
understanding acquisition
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
understanding world way
There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are." Richard Bach
understanding lacking whole
Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these. Richard Wagner
understanding discrimination tenacity
The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create. Thomas Cole