Quotes about understanding
understanding roles world
Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving. Abraham Joshua Heschel
understanding violent destruction
... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
understanding world today
The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding. Alejandro Jodorowsky
understanding humans
Some things are beyond human understanding. Alexandra Adornetto
understanding done frogs
Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process. E. B. White
understanding
'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.
understanding opinion theological
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. Anne Lamott
understanding evaluation social
Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison Albert Bandura
understanding experience minimalist
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus
understanding hiv generations
My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that. Annie Lennox
understanding progress novelists
If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself. Annie Dillard
understanding sin weak
A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross. D. A. Carson
understanding acting research
You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding. Danny Huston
understanding existential imagine
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all. David Cronenberg
understanding care firsts
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation. Dallas Willard
understanding ongoing sacred
This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation. Curtis White
understanding shock
When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath. David Levithan
understanding done research
Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been . . . I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. David Blackwell
understanding fabric fields
We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding. David Bohm
understanding weakness faculty
Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding. David Whyte
understanding stories film
"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence. David Mamet
understanding unity islam
It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion. Aly Khan
understanding way
The only way to change is by changing your understanding. Anthony de Mello
understanding
And without understanding, could each properly love the other? Anita Brookner
understanding challenges environmental
This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will require inter-disciplinary approaches combined with a good understanding of science, economics and governance aspects. The NUS Bachelor of Environment programme will fill a much needed gap in the current framework. NEA is pleased to be a partner to this programme. Andrew Tan
understanding arabia majesty
I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia. Ameen Rihani
understanding suffering dunces
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. Ambrose Bierce
understanding attention impossible
I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love, and attention can produce the biggest results. Alicia Keys
understanding way triumph
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us. Alice Walker
understanding movement literature
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
understanding found lost
It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found. Alice Hoffman
understanding pulling
life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
understanding
My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.