Understanding Quotes

Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever...

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the pu...

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's vi...

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.

Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone...

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Re...

Being tough isn’t in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used...

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is...

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone y...

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skel...

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can...

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...

O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew no...

He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. But h...

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. B...

…the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped...

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make ...

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehende...

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. ...

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply...

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence...

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the...

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It...

A man's capable of understanding anything - how the ether vibrates, and what's going on in the sun -...

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or ra...

The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as tha...

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic ...

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress ...

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the do...

By thinking of things you could understand them.

Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to...

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like chara...

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is f...

There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ...

Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level...

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on pe...

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is u...

To be free, you have to examine authority, the whole skeleton of authority, tearing to pieces the wh...

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation ...

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a prob...

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands...

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence."There is much I don't unders

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall str...

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly m...

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own righ...

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily ...

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understa...

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to...

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, a...

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true...

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man we...

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of ru...

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative pote...

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow o...

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and ma...

So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you’re still asking me that ques

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the...

Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams an...

Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can hap...

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship poss...

As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is pe...

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve...

In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be...

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds...

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my under...

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be a...

Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before.""I know that. Where do you think I got my...

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Do you think things always have an explanation? "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with ...

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding ...

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be...

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.