Quotes about understanding
understanding possibility ability
All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no. Susan Sontag
understanding promise ease
Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.
understanding world accepting
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
understanding shortcuts
Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else. Scott Adams
understanding brain development
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it. Ray Kurzweil
understanding language computer
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
understanding ego east
But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the problem he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker. This is the paradox - in the West ego is taught, in the East egolessness is taught. But in the West it is easy to dissolve the ego, in the East it is very difficult. Rajneesh
understanding ego doers
Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great understanding that, "I am not." Surrender is an insight that the ego exists not, that, "I am not separate." Surrender is not an act but an understanding.
understanding lips feels
Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding. Tamora Pierce
understanding important influence
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised. Robert Winston
understanding mind female
The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it. Richard P. Feynman
understanding religion atheism
Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from...
understanding way sometimes
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. Richard Dawkins
understanding three conviction
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. Richard Whately
understanding storm sound
It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms. Richard Baxter
understanding slave
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand. Vernon Howard
understanding negative emotion
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
understanding acquisition
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
understanding world way
There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are." Richard Bach
understanding lacking whole
Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these. Richard Wagner
understanding discrimination tenacity
The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create. Thomas Cole
understanding mind faculty
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. Thomas de Quincey
understanding tolerance culture
...if we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better understanding of each other, and tolerance and so forth, that's what the world will become, a more tolerant, loving place. Russell Simmons
understanding lines able
It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.' John Horgan. Ronald Graham
understanding way relate
When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are. Sally Field
understanding
From understanding comes LOVE. Rumi
understanding brain damage
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself. Susan Boyle
understanding body behavior
There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of. Sufjan Stevens
understanding economy clinton
Hillary Clinton has no understanding of the economy at all. Rudy Giuliani
understanding acrimony pedants
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted. Samuel Johnson
understanding ancient length
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. Ruth Ozeki
understanding world way
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us? Rowan Williams
understanding trying sun
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman. Robert Jordan