Quotes about understanding
understanding illness understanding-yourself
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally. Kay Redfield Jamison
understanding individuality identity
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. Oprah Winfrey
understanding doe world
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see. Oprah Winfrey
understanding knows
We understand more than we know. Margaret Atwood
understanding 50th-birthday age
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. Georg C. Lichtenberg
understanding today position
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it. Georg C. Lichtenberg
understanding holes reconciliation
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone. Gerald R. Ford
understanding firsts action
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action. Jiddu Krishnamurti
understanding want doe
You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this. Jiddu Krishnamurti
understanding levels action
Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. Jiddu Krishnamurti
understanding brain intellectual
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all? Jiddu Krishnamurti
understanding-knowledge addiction doe
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom. Jiddu Krishnamurti
understanding sweetness
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. Glenn Beck
understanding environment function
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences Frank Herbert
understanding wish poor
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. Pablo Picasso
understanding together needs
We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding with the organisms that sustain us today, not only will we destroy those organisms, but we will destroy ourselves. Paul Stamets
understanding
Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself. Paul Celan
understanding lucky sake
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake. Maeve Binchy
understanding intellectual brain
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe. Jason Silva
understanding forgiving
To understand all is to forgive all. Evelyn Waugh
understanding firsts labels
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. Eudora Welty
understanding lucky snapshots
Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within. Eudora Welty
understanding assuming painting
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
understanding firsts understood
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. Henri Frederic Amiel
understanding literature depth
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. Helen Keller
understanding getting-older looking-forward
When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. Cate Blanchett
understanding nerd details
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature. Chris Hardwick
understanding limits universe
The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered. Francis Bacon
understanding admitting like-you
Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding. Frances Wright
understanding tolerance human-nature
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. Fran Lebowitz
understanding facts reason
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason. G. Gordon Liddy
understanding gone world
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. Friedrich Nietzsche
understanding ifs knows
If you know the why, you can live any how. Friedrich Nietzsche