Quotes about understanding
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 action
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action. Lois McMaster Bujold
understanding stills behinds
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another. Lyndon B. Johnson
understanding looks sometimes
When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do. Malcolm Forbes
understanding opinion philosopher
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. Maimonides
understanding force used
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. Mahatma Gandhi
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.
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 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 next poet
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
understanding way facts
There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision. Henry Petroski
understanding important our-lives
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives. Helen Mirren
understanding today delay
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus
understanding doe teach
Learning many things does not teach understanding
understanding may matter
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth. Henry Ward Beecher
understanding half wells
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
understanding literature understanding-and-love
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
understanding wonder
All understanding begins in wonder!
understanding world way
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
understanding
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
understanding tea firsts
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat. Joan Didion
understanding mind exit
A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge. Jim Woodring
understanding waste life-is
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for. Eleanor Roosevelt
understanding
Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why. Mia Wasikowska
understanding
don't have a real understanding of HBO's business. Chris Albrecht
understanding
You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key. Rita Ora
understanding important repetition
Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living. Gertrude Stein