Quotes about understanding
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 tables matter
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry... Primo Levi
understanding aging increase
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging. Plutarch
understanding want able
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
understanding obedience
Obedience completes itself in understanding. Phillips Brooks
understanding true-understanding exposed
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish. Philip Yancey
understanding world may
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used. Polykarp Kusch
understanding slave
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand. Vernon Howard
understanding negative emotion
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
understanding acquisition
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
understanding world way
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 Bach
understanding lacking whole
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. Richard Wagner
understanding discrimination tenacity
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 Cole
understanding mind faculty
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. Thomas de Quincey
understanding ifs
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves. Sarah Gadon
understanding
See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something. Sarah Dessen
understanding literature trouble
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. Roland Barthes
understanding sometimes enough
Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Robert Ley
understanding firsts looks
It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other. Sara Sheridan
understanding half jewish-faith
I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it. Rebecca Miller
understanding lexicon frozen
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.
understanding perception
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. Robert Delaunay
understanding actors directors
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong. Robert De Niro
understanding world truth-is
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God’s and everything in it... Rob Bell
understanding economy clinton
Hillary Clinton has no understanding of the economy at all. Rudy Giuliani
understanding acrimony pedants
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted. Samuel Johnson
understanding ancient length
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. Ruth Ozeki
understanding world way
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us? Rowan Williams
understanding trying sun
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman. Robert Jordan
understanding important benefits
The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health. Robert Jarvik
understanding important useless
My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time. Robert Owen
understanding neurosis someday
Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis. Vincent Van Gogh