Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

From understanding comes LOVE.

Susan Boyle

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.

Sufjan Stevens

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.

Sidney Hook

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Tony Robbins

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

Simone de Beauvoir

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

Simon Sinek

Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

Simon Sinek

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Remy de Gourmont

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Tite Kubo

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

Thucydides

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

Robert A. Heinlein

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.

Reggie Watts

Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.

Robert Boyle

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

Raymond Williams

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

Vernon Howard

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

Vernon Howard

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Vernon Howard

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

Richard Bach

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 Wagner

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.

Thomas Cole

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 de Quincey

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

Tony Hoare

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

Stephen Covey

You can't live principals you can't understand.

Vannevar Bush

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

Vanna Bonta

Understanding precedes peace.

Vanna Bonta

There is no hospitality like understanding.

Vaclav Klaus

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

Vaclav Havel

There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain

Steven Weinberg

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

Richard Neal

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

Tariq Ramadan

If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don't understand the objective.