Quotes about understanding
understanding deceit elements
The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of deceit in selling the photographs as such Julie Burchill
understanding way trust-in-god
Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust. James Macdonald
understanding tea firsts
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat. Joan Didion
understanding mind exit
A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge. Jim Woodring
understanding impossible capable
If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him. John Dewey
understanding bending restless
This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding, ... John Carroll
understanding majesty splendor
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor. John Calvin
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 action
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action. Lois McMaster Bujold
understanding stills behinds
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another. Lyndon B. Johnson
understanding looks sometimes
When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do. Malcolm Forbes
understanding opinion philosopher
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. Maimonides
understanding force used
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. Mahatma Gandhi
understanding world truth-is
Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
understanding misunderstanding
Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings. Haruki Murakami
understanding wonder
All understanding begins in wonder! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
understanding world way
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
understanding
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
understanding democracy said
This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy. James Patterson
understanding fields expanding
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
understanding world action
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. Ellen Swallow Richards
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 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 half wells
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.