Quotes about understanding
understanding world truth-is
Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray. Mahatma Gandhi
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 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 luck doe
Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck. Karen Russell
understanding faculty wells
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties. Joseph Glanvill
understanding prejudice firsts
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.
understanding lovely age
Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain. John Kenneth Galbraith
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 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 worship devotion
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God. Meher Baba
understanding looks metaphor
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. Mary Catherine Bateson
understanding needs world
Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love. Pope Francis
understanding gains sometimes
Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding. Peter Mullan
understanding secret enough
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. Remy de Gourmont
understanding bleach emotion
Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen Tite Kubo
understanding useless
Knowledge without understanding is useless. Thucydides
understanding ignorant boots
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. Robert A. Heinlein
understanding firsts facts
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. Rirkrit Tiravanija
understanding eras source
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. Reggie Watts
understanding littles philosopher
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. Robert Boyle
understanding trying tools
There are paths and ruts in the spirit world as there are in the physical and mental world. One must take the tools of the spirit world and make one's own path rather than exactly follow the paths of those who once were . . . You must not seek their path and their understanding, but you must seek your own. The ruts of the spirit are trying to follow others and it cannot be done. Tom Brown, Jr.
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
understanding way relate
When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are. Sally Field