Quotes about understanding
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 conflict
Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace. Lester B. Pearson
understanding may reign
Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates. Lester Bangs
understanding important exploration
Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not. Lawrence M. Krauss
understanding evidence lack-of-understanding
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.
understanding mystery overrated
Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated. Larry McMurtry
understanding lines different
There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different. Leon Uris
understanding mind mythology
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. Joseph Campbell
understanding benefits facts
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results are not reliable or that the discrepancies which are asserted to exist between the experimental results and the theory are only apparent and that they will disappear with the advance of our understanding. If you insist on strict proof (or strict disproof) in the empirical sciences, you will never benefit from experience, and never learn from it how wrong you are. Karl Popper
understanding
Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding. Julie Garwood
understanding luck doe
Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck. Karen Russell
understanding faculty wells
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties. Joseph Glanvill
understanding prejudice firsts
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.
understanding lovely age
Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain. John Kenneth Galbraith
understanding obscurity advantage
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. Lionel Trilling
understanding fundamentals done
Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Linus Torvalds
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 should
One should never condemn what one cannot understand. Han Suyin
understanding delicacy
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. Gustav Mahler
understanding
I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing. John Lyly
understanding life-is human-life
I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is. John Lennon
understanding looks way
Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own. Jim Rohn
understanding shapes goodness
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding. Emanuel Swedenborg
understanding saying-yes way
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding. Elizabeth Gilbert
understanding therapy
There is no better therapy than understanding. Jimmy Piersall
understanding looks creation
If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don't understand the objective. Tariq Ramadan
understanding our-words deeds
If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned. T. S. Eliot