Quotes about understanding
understanding tolerance human-nature
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. Fran Lebowitz
understanding facts reason
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason. G. Gordon Liddy
understanding gone world
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. Friedrich Nietzsche
understanding ifs knows
If you know the why, you can live any how.
understanding wish want
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
understanding mind hiv
Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind. Nate Mendel
understanding forgotten
We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it. Nancy Willard
understanding far-away
I felt like I was standing in a deep valley looking at a far away Himalayan peak. I can see now this was more my own projection for my understanding since is: The master is only as far away as you are from yourself. Milarepa
understanding age too-late
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. Milan Kundera
understanding doubt gold
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant. Joseph Addison
understanding sensitivity ready
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
understanding language
You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language? Jorge Luis Borges
understanding together world
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. Jonathan Swift
understanding world way
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
understanding
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
understanding democracy said
This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy. James Patterson
understanding fields expanding
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
understanding way trust-in-god
Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust. James Macdonald
understanding may overcoming
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. Norman Vincent Peale
understanding weakness strive
We should strive to understand the weakness of others. Ellen G. White
understanding add body
Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality. Epicurus
understanding desire please
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
understanding world action
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. Ellen Swallow Richards
understanding contradiction deeper
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding. Edward Teller
understanding next poet
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
understanding way facts
There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision. Henry Petroski
understanding important our-lives
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives. Helen Mirren
understanding today delay
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus
understanding doe teach
Learning many things does not teach understanding
understanding may matter
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth. Henry Ward Beecher
understanding half wells
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
understanding literature understanding-and-love
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
understanding wonder
All understanding begins in wonder!