Quotes about understand
understanding mind faculty
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. Thomas de Quincey
understanding ifs
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves. Sarah Gadon
understanding
See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something. Sarah Dessen
understanding literature trouble
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. Roland Barthes
understanding sometimes enough
Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Robert Ley
understanding firsts looks
It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other. Sara Sheridan
understanding half jewish-faith
I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it. Rebecca Miller
understanding lexicon frozen
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.
understanding perception
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. Robert Delaunay
understanding actors directors
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong. Robert De Niro
understanding world truth-is
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God’s and everything in it... Rob Bell
understanding economy clinton
Hillary Clinton has no understanding of the economy at all. Rudy Giuliani
understanding acrimony pedants
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted. Samuel Johnson
understanding ancient length
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. Ruth Ozeki
understanding world way
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us? Rowan Williams
understanding trying sun
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman. Robert Jordan
understanding important benefits
The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health. Robert Jarvik
understanding important useless
My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time. Robert Owen
understanding neurosis someday
Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis. Vincent Van Gogh
understanding prize
In life, understanding is the booby prize. Werner Erhard
understanding indifference mercy
I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. Werner Herzog
understanding might painting
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. Salvador Dali
understanding lines cop
I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. Ryan Reynolds
understanding tools
Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions. Rudolf Steiner
understanding able understanding-you
The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others. Tony Orlando
understanding salary depends
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it. Upton Sinclair
understanding mentor genius
True understanding is the spur of genius Ursula K. Le Guin
understanding suffering abnormal
In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. Stefan Zweig
understanding speech conception
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. Thomas Hobbes
understanding may evolution
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything. Thomas Kuhn
understanding crisis humans
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. Raymond Williams
understanding tolerance culture
...if we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better understanding of each other, and tolerance and so forth, that's what the world will become, a more tolerant, loving place. Russell Simmons
understanding lines able
It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.' John Horgan. Ronald Graham