Understanding Quotes

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...

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...

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespre...

Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world’s language, that it’s different for every world. A...

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the r...

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract th...

I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door th...

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he w...

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for...

The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might sti...

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to ...

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...

True love is born from understanding.

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in ...

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there's a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed wi...

...as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.

There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things...

Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neat...

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – ...

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a...

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...