Understanding Quotes

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la méta...

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning...

In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into...

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history....

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to le...

It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you hav...

It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the on...

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we hav...

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his g...

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get p...

it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers fr...

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unle...

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of t...

Everything is linked,' said an enraptured Baremboim on stage; 'everyone is linked, all our actions h...

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that ou...

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding d...

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from u...

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon wha...

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Y...

So it is our request that you try to study Bhagavad-gītā as it is. Don't try to distort it by your s...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect u...

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own not a...

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the a...

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to unders...

There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the ...

What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank...

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s ...

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy th...

I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forev...

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is un...

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because ther...

If I Ain't Got You"Some people live for the fortuneSome people live just for the fameSome people liv...

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a ver...

And another local journalist wrote an op-ed wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far. Won...

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of every...

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and aw...

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, underst...

Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturi...

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejud...

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgott...

It could be that God has absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have ...

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery prob...

Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insince...

Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing u...

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, ...

At the limit it could be said that every speaking being has a personal language of his own, that is ...

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

To perceive is to suffer.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you ...

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into someth...

There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another pe...

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the an...

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feel...

One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perce...

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; s...

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at al...

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll...

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live accordin...

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mea...

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my kno...

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowl...

People often silence themselves, or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of...

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by compute...

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in whi...

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow --...

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of...

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No...

By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.

When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in hi...

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him...