Quotes about understanding
understanding attention belief
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. Johann Georg Hamann
understanding favour flaws
I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have. Joe Klein
understanding suffering would-be
Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst. Joe Hill
understanding pesticides used
My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used. George Deukmejian
understanding way facts
There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision. Henry Petroski
understanding important our-lives
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives. Helen Mirren
understanding today delay
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus
understanding doe teach
Learning many things does not teach understanding
understanding may matter
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth. Henry Ward Beecher
understanding eras source
Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from. Reggie Watts
understanding littles philosopher
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning. Robert Boyle
understanding trying tools
There are paths and ruts in the spirit world as there are in the physical and mental world. One must take the tools of the spirit world and make one's own path rather than exactly follow the paths of those who once were . . . You must not seek their path and their understanding, but you must seek your own. The ruts of the spirit are trying to follow others and it cannot be done. Tom Brown, Jr.
understanding challenges intellectual
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges. Nicholas A. Christakis
understanding misunderstood language
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. John W. Vessey, Jr.
understanding emotion chance
It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results. John Templeton
understanding-love be-kind travels-with-charley
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. John Steinbeck
understanding ears speech
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
understanding agendas messengers
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it. John Pilger
understanding riches gift-from-god
Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God. Martin Luther
understanding green approximation
Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding. Nick Bantock
understanding safe feels
The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding. Nancy Allen
understanding should offers
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
understanding facts obstacles
Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding. Mortimer Adler
understanding agree disagree
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
understanding firsts steps
As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it. Peter Drucker
understanding contradiction deeper
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding. Edward Teller
understanding brain kind
If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right? Edward Boyden
understanding next poet
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
understanding suggestions nuclear
The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure. James Rainwater
understanding individual persons
Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely. Friedrich Schleiermacher
understanding fascination research
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter. Frederick Sanger
understanding tests capacity
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity. George Gissing
understanding boards records
[Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre. Jon Brion