Understanding Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Understanding

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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
~By Marquis de Sade ~


Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
~By Vicki Baum ~


What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
~By Bryan Singer ~


Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~


The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
~By Sam Donaldson ~


Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~


Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, "big picture" understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.
~By Roy Spencer ~


Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.
~By Michael Behe ~


Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
~By George Soros ~


For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
~By Stanislav Grof ~


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~By Carl Jung ~


Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
~By George C. Williams ~


Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
~By Alma Gluck ~


There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
~By Anatoly Chubais ~


Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
~By Karel Capek ~


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 ~


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 ~


The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.
~By Martin L. Gross ~


The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.
~By Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ~


There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
~By Donald Johanson ~


Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
~By Glenn Beck ~


The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
~By James Talent ~


There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~


Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
~By Paul Nurse ~


But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
~By Haldan Keffer Hartline ~


Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
~By Susan Taylor ~


I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
~By David Rockefeller ~


I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
~By Helen Keller ~


I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
~By Tim Burton ~


My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.
~By Crystal Chappell ~


What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~


The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~


Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.
~By Terry Riley ~


The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.
~By James Rainwater ~


Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
~By Gordon Getty ~


Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~


No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
~By Avi Arad ~


It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~


Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
~By Lionel Trilling ~


To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~


Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
~By Louis Gerstner ~


Power is the by-product of understanding.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~


Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
~By Marian Anderson ~


Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
~By Bo Bennett ~


I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.
~By Sharon Gless ~


Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.
~By Pete du Pont ~


People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
~By Samuel Richardson ~


This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.
~By Marc Forne Molne ~


But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
~By Marc Bloch ~


This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
~By Aaron Klug ~


Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.
~By Roger Penrose ~


It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
~By Erma Bombeck ~


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 ~


Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
~By David R. Brower ~


Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
~By Peter Davison ~


I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
~By Fred Ward ~


Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
~By John Barton ~


Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~


We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
~By Kevin Kelly ~


I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~


Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~


Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~


It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~


I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.
~By Claire Danes ~


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 ~


Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
~By Andre Gide ~


You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.
~By Jay Roach ~


In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.
~By Margaret Spellings ~


The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
~By Winifred Holtby ~


And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~


Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
~By John Warnock ~


Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.
~By Laurel Clark ~


The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~


Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
~By John Polkinghorne ~


This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
~By Nicholas Negroponte ~


Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
~By Clifford Stoll ~


You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.
~By Jon Voight ~


My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.
~By Margaret Spellings ~


It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
~By Upton Sinclair ~


The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
~By Warren Rudman ~


This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.
~By Martin Sheen ~


I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
~By Kyan Douglas ~


I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
~By Alva Noto ~


And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.
~By Peter Gay ~


Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
~By Henry Reed ~


To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
~By Madame de Stael ~


More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
~By John W. Vessey, Jr. ~


The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~


Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~


This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
~By Sally Schneider ~


If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
~By Vin Diesel ~


As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~


It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
~By James Baldwin ~


Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~


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 ~


The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
~By Errol Morris ~


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 ~


Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
~By Paul Nurse ~


Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
~By W. Clement Stone ~


Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
~By Sue Johanson ~

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