Quotes about understanding
understanding speech conception
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. Thomas Hobbes
understanding may evolution
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything. Thomas Kuhn
understanding crisis humans
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. Raymond Williams
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 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 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 challenges brain
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind. Tony Hoare
understanding principal
You can't live principals you can't understand. Stephen Covey
understanding world logical
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world Vannevar Bush
understanding
Understanding precedes peace. Vanna Bonta
understanding hospitality
There is no hospitality like understanding.
understanding prague principles
By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. Vaclav Klaus
understanding world experts
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain Vaclav Havel
understanding mind seduction
Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Stephen Levine
understanding seems concepts
The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless. Steven Weinberg