Quotes about understanding
understanding important benefits
The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health. Robert Jarvik
understanding important useless
My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time. Robert Owen
understanding littles zen-motorcycle-maintenance
There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. Robert M. Pirsig
understanding inner-peace mind
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.
understanding quality knows
Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
understanding emotion wells
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion. Robert Louis Stevenson
understanding language computer
Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language. Wally Amos
understanding challenges brain
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind. Tony Hoare
understanding principal
You can't live principals you can't understand. Stephen Covey
understanding world logical
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world Vannevar Bush
understanding
Understanding precedes peace. Vanna Bonta
understanding hospitality
There is no hospitality like understanding.
understanding prague principles
By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. Vaclav Klaus
understanding world experts
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain Vaclav Havel
understanding mind seduction
Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Stephen Levine
understanding atmosphere trying
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education. Terence McKenna
understanding psychedelic should
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
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 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 duty humans
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand... Soren Kierkegaard
understanding facts unexpected
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
understanding suffering abnormal
In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. Stefan Zweig
understanding speech conception
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. Thomas Hobbes
understanding may evolution
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything. Thomas Kuhn
understanding crisis humans
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. Raymond Williams
understanding bottles tables
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding. Russell Baker
understanding trying actors
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language. Ruben Santiago-Hudson
understanding important culture
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. Troy Perry
understanding magic enemy
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set. Rick Riordan
understanding territory ends
I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other. Rebecca Solnit
understanding secret way
The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place. Rick Wakeman
understanding misunderstanding
Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings. Haruki Murakami