People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
~By Abdullah Ibrahim ~
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 ~
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
~By David Ansen ~
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
~By Gordon Getty ~
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
~By Andre Gide ~
When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
~By Joseph Wambaugh ~
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
~By Marge Piercy ~
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 ~
We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.
~By Evan Thomas ~
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
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 ~
I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
~By Rick Wakeman ~
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
~By James Boswell ~
High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.
~By Dennis C. Blair ~
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.
~By Maimonides ~
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
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 ~
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
~By Vernon Howard ~
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 ~
We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
~By Afrika Bambaataa ~
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
~By David Gerrold ~
Understanding is a two-way street.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
~By Fernand Leger ~
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
~By Bede Griffiths ~
By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
~By Flavius Josephus ~
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 ~
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
~By Willard Libby ~
The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.
~By David Kay ~
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 ~
But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
~By Jim Bunning ~
It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
~By David Korten ~
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
~By David Rockefeller ~
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
~By Minna Antrim ~
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 ~
What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.
~By Walter Washington ~
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.
~By Dave Anderson ~
Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.
~By Robert Ley ~
This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
~By Allen West ~
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
~By Bodhidharma ~
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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 ~
It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
~By Dennis Banks ~
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.
~By Modest Mussorgsky ~
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
~By Margaret E. Sangster ~
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 ~
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 ~
Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.
~By Donald Evans ~
The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
~By Charles Munch ~
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
~By John Lennon ~
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
~By Pierre Salinger ~
Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
~By Harold Evans ~
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
~By David R. Brower ~
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 ~
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 ~
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
~By Albert Camus ~
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
~By Roland Allen ~
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.
~By Anatoli Boukreev ~
I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.
~By John Anderson ~
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
~By Ann Landers ~
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 ~
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
~By Lao Tzu ~
We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.
~By Ricardo Lagos ~
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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 ~
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
~By Black Elk ~
And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
~By Henry Taube ~
We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.
~By Jon Ronson ~
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 ~
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
~By Bob Dylan ~
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
~By Saint Patrick ~
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
~By William Hazlitt ~
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
~By Frederick Sanger ~
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 ~
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.
~By Hu Shih ~
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
~By Rick Larsen ~
The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
~By Tony Blair ~
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 ~
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