Quotes about understand
understanding findings closest
It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is. Alain de Botton
understanding human-nature optimist
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. Al Gore
understanding ornaments kitsch
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. Charles Jencks
understanding culture dominion
I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture. Charles Colson
understanding saws patient
Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it. Bruce Catton
understanding insight
Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. Brian Greene
understanding rich exciting
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
understanding reason particular
The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
understanding band gathering
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. Bruce Springsteen
understanding intimacy intimate
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. Brad Meltzer
understanding responsible here-and-now
There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible. Brad Pitt
understanding labels truth-will-prevail
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding Boyd Rice
understanding realizing pleasure
Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned. Charles Bukowski
understanding ignorant age
It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in. Benjamin Franklin
understanding working-it evidence
When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God. Ben Bova
understand-me
To understand me you have to meet me Avril Lavigne
understanding statistics way
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it. Arthur C. Clarke
understanding
I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
understanding answers excuse
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. Dean Koontz
understanding mind vision
When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding. Bodhidharma
understanding way dharma
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.
understand-me you-dont-understand-me stills
You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything. Antonio Porchia
understanding answers problem
We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem. Bruce Lee
understanding perception inquiry
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
understanding shadow patterns
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
understanding inquiry honest
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
understanding use aids
He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates. Edmund Burke
understanding planning observation
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
understanding want prudent
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future. Dee Hock
understanding action process
Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace Dieter F. Uchtdorf
understanding inquiry acorns
The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.
understanding important
The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage. Dick Cheney
understanding charming conversation
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. Edgar Degas