Quotes about understanding
understanding vietnam realizing
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. Alan Moore
understanding important president
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. Dean Acheson
understanding criticism taste
Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment. David Hume
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 saturn spokes
Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding. Carolyn Porco
understanding affair reason
You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small Carlos Castaneda
understanding mind wish
I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station! Charlotte Lamb
understanding mind topics
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence. Charles Lamb
understanding world rounds
The world only goes round by misunderstanding. Charles Baudelaire
understanding information moments
Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens. Charlie Kaufman
understanding gold hoarding
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk. Charlie Munger
understanding goes-on explaining
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
understanding invisible invisible-things
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing. Bernard of Clairvaux
understanding
Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works. Romesh Gunesekera
understanding humanity desire
There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us. Bryan Stevenson
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
understanding preparation belief
I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it. Elizabeth Kostova
understanding facts application
Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application. Edwin Louis Cole
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
understanding
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding. Black Elk
understanding needs feels
I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding. Betty Smith
understanding disease facts
My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases. Bill Gates
understanding pushing boundaries
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
understanding chinese wish
My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more. Ai Weiwei
understanding important division
I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians. Bill Keller
understanding mind gods-will
God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word. Bill Johnson
understanding
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all. Leroy Hood
understanding
Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders. Kay Redfield Jamison
understanding
It's not the fat that's making you fat: it's not understanding separating carbohydrates from protein and fat. Suzanne Somers