Quotes about understanding
understanding attention said
Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them. Marcus Aurelius
understanding-nature would-be fairy-tale
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. Marc Chagall
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 littles zen-motorcycle-maintenance
There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. Robert M. Pirsig
understanding inner-peace mind
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.
understanding quality knows
Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
understanding emotion wells
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion. Robert Louis Stevenson
understanding language computer
Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language. Wally Amos
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
understanding
From understanding comes LOVE. Rumi
understanding brain damage
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself. Susan Boyle
understanding body behavior
There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of. Sufjan Stevens
understanding perception awareness
A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life. Sidney Hook
understanding use
It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you. Tony Robbins
understanding facts reason
Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others. Simone de Beauvoir
understanding listening firsts
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place. Simon Sinek
understanding felt has-beens
Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.
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