Quotes about understanding
understanding essentials administration
Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions. Narendra Modi
understanding intellectual culture
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye
understanding furniture common
In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding. Olympia Brown
understanding mind needs
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future; the freedom to get beyond ourselves...in states of mind that allow us to rise above our immediate surroundings and see the beauty and value of the world we live in. Oliver Sacks
understanding pleasure
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures. Michael Caine
understanding want techie
When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work. Michiel Huisman
understanding littles
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
understanding study
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work. Marge Piercy
understanding progress ifs
We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding. Mahatma Gandhi
understanding world ascent
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. Jacob Bronowski
understanding brain wire
You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks. Louise Erdrich
understanding tea firsts
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat. Joan Didion
understanding mind exit
A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge. Jim Woodring
understanding
The cardinal's understanding is that he'll be here another two years or so.
understanding dabs pieces
We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone Shane Koyczan
understanding impossible capable
If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him. John Dewey
understanding bending restless
This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding, ... John Carroll
understanding majesty splendor
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor. John Calvin
understanding attention belief
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. Johann Georg Hamann
understanding favour flaws
I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have. Joe Klein
understanding suffering would-be
Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst. Joe Hill
understanding pesticides used
My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used. George Deukmejian
understanding therapy
There is no better therapy than understanding. Jimmy Piersall
understanding brutes distinguished
We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding. John Flavel
understanding mystery infinite
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.
understanding obscurity advantage
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. Lionel Trilling
understanding fundamentals done
Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Linus Torvalds
understanding conflict
Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace. Lester B. Pearson
understanding may reign
Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates. Lester Bangs
understanding important exploration
Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not. Lawrence M. Krauss
understanding evidence lack-of-understanding
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.
understanding mystery overrated
Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated. Larry McMurtry
understanding lines different
There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different. Leon Uris