Understanding Quotes

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...

Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at t...

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence ...

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however ...

Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.

I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through m...

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even C...

Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street....

He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. ...

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will...

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis

Understanding breeds empathy.

Learn to see what you are looking at.

In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to...

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstru...

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accep...

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I mu...

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master sai...

cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and

She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinki...

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue wh...

And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?""The universe is well, there are theories about how i...

It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is

It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

I'll just quote myself for now; actually, I'll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins respo...

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

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to unders...

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because...

[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understan...

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to m...

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things wi...

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessiona...

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possi...

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call ...

The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any e...

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of fr...

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known stru...

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.

Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. S...

I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundame...

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they...

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. I...

To understand is to forgive.

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in suc...

A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequ...

I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words o...

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't...

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an e...

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact...

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...