Quotes about understanding
understanding firsts facts
When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began. Rirkrit Tiravanija
understanding age liberty
We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution. Ralph Waldo Emerson
understanding world littles
So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising Saul Perlmutter
understanding needs use
We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone. Saul Griffith
understanding criminals thrive
Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding. Liam Neeson
understanding states highest
Life in its highest state is understanding. L. Ron Hubbard
understanding way principles
For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing. Thomas Aquinas
understanding may faithfulness
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
understanding tolerance anarchy
Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding. Terry Goodkind
understanding goes-on matter
My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.
understanding again-and-again
When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it. Shunryu Suzuki
understanding attention said
Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them. Marcus Aurelius
understanding battle matter
I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go. Peter Berg
understanding moments vulnerable
Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time. Pema Chodron
understanding different paint
As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour. Phil Collins
understanding want hanging-out
Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played. Peter Sarsgaard
understanding patriotism true-patriotism
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others. Queen Elizabeth II
understanding difficult feels
I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in. Queen Latifah
understanding study academic
The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life. Julian Barnes
understanding literature impossible
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. Kevin Kelly
understanding firsts facts
I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it. Kevin Hart
understanding lifestyle phony
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. Kenzaburo Oe
understanding why-not agendas
There are no demands - undue demands... There are many questions we get? why China? why now and the answer is why not?... There is no any hidden agenda in our cooperation with China, it is a relationship based on mutual understanding and equality; they understand our situation. Jakaya Kikwete
understanding looking-for-sympathy
I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding. Jacoby Shaddix
understanding degrees needs
My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven. Henry Rollins
understanding trying want
When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them. Henry A. Kissinger
understanding producers farmers
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs. Henry George
understanding forgotten
We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it. Nancy Willard
understanding far-away
I felt like I was standing in a deep valley looking at a far away Himalayan peak. I can see now this was more my own projection for my understanding since is: The master is only as far away as you are from yourself. Milarepa
understanding age too-late
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. Milan Kundera
understanding doubt gold
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant. Joseph Addison
understanding sensitivity ready
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
understanding language
You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language? Jorge Luis Borges