We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
~By Kathy Acker ~
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
~By Dennis Banks ~
These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
~By William Glasser ~
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.
~By Northrop Frye ~
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
~By Milton Friedman ~
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
~By Charles Kettering ~
Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
~By James Boswell ~
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
~By Marcel Carne ~
Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.
~By Jung Chang ~
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
~By David Hume ~
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.
~By Alice Walker ~
I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
~By Lech Walesa ~
There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
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.
~By Aly Khan ~
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
~By Steven Brust ~
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
~By Maya Angelou ~
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~By Xenophon ~
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
~By Richard Russo ~
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
~By Victoria de los Angeles ~
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
~By Martin Luther ~
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
~By Upton Sinclair ~
I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.
~By Alexandra Paul ~
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
~By Albert Einstein ~
But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
~By Richard Russo ~
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
~By Carl Sagan ~
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.
~By Ben Edwards ~
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
~By William Trevor ~
As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.
~By Jim Evans ~
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
~By Francois Truffaut ~
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
~By George Gillespie ~
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
~By William James ~
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
~By Toni Morrison ~
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
~By Tony Robbins ~
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
~By Norman Maclean ~
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~By Carl Jung ~
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
~By Ryan White ~
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
~By Dave Davies ~
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
~By Fernand Leger ~
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
~By George Savile ~
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
~By Marian Anderson ~
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
~By David Hume ~
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
~By A. E. Housman ~
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
~By Burt Rutan ~
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
~By Renata Adler ~
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
~By Bruce Jay Friedman ~
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
~By Rick Larsen ~
I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.
~By William Kirby ~
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
~By Robert Penn Warren ~
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
~By R. D. Laing ~
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
~By Juan Cole ~
I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.
~By Josh Lucas ~
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
~By Winifred Holtby ~
In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.
~By Dave Holland ~
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
~By Alfred Adler ~
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
~By Jeff Hawkins ~
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
~By Richard Branson ~
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
~By Butch Otter ~
An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.
~By George Grosz ~
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
~By Edward Steichen ~
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
~By Vernon Howard ~
My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.
~By Crystal Chappell ~
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
~By Georges Rouault ~
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
~By Jean Rostand ~
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
~By Rockwell Kent ~
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.
~By Ken Burns ~
It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.
~By Prince Andrew ~
I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.
~By John Abizaid ~
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
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