Quotes about understanding
understanding instruments humans
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings. Jonathan Nolan
understanding cruelty ability
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. Jonathan Safran Foer
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 chemistry physics
There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics. Neil deGrasse Tyson
understanding i-dont-need-you useless
The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
understanding misunderstood language
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. John W. Vessey, Jr.
understanding emotion chance
It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results. John Templeton
understanding-love be-kind travels-with-charley
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. John Steinbeck
understanding ears speech
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
understanding agendas messengers
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it. John Pilger
understanding riches gift-from-god
Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God. Martin Luther
understanding green approximation
Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding. Nick Bantock
understanding safe feels
The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding. Nancy Allen
understanding should offers
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
understanding important instant-replay
Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened. Seth Godin
understanding celebration life-is
Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration. Rajneesh
understanding vision awareness
Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.
understanding vision weight
Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise a virtue it is no longer a virtue. A practised virtue is a dead thing, a dead weight. Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.
understanding insightful surrender
The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.