Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gisele Bundchen

Be more loving, compassionate and understanding with ourselves, with others, and with the planet, because we are all connected. We are one.

Haldan Keffer Hartline

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.

Gene Robinson

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

George Etherege

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Fay Weldon

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Francis Bacon

The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

Harold Rosenberg

I can't understand it. They just wanted to retire.

I can understand that some unions have frustrations and they have to be addressed, but you can't keep everyone happy.

William Hanson

I couldn't understand a word he was saying,

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Even before 9/11, the Philippines was already fighting terrorism in southwestern Philippines. That's why when 9/11 happened, we could understand the pain.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

I understand the manufacturers don't want the supplier network, and I can understand why.

Princess Diana

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will ever know yourself.

I understand why they did what they did,

Bob Beauprez

I understand what you're against, but I don't know what you're for.

I understand we all take it for granted,

We will never understand this until we get to heaven,

Dogen

There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.

You can never really understand it until you've experienced it.

Joss Stone

Well, I don't really understand how you can do that.

We all have arguments with our teenagers, you know? I don't understand this.

Wes Walz

We all understand that it's something that could happen. I don't think anyone's untouchable in our room.

Orson Scott Card

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

Elaine Pagels

At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are.

Chris Albrecht

don't have a real understanding of HBO's business.

Michael Shermer

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Nicolas Chamfort

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

Nicole Kidman

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

Shane Koyczan

We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Maeve Binchy

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.