Quotes about understanding
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 progress ifs
We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding. Mahatma Gandhi
understanding suggestions nuclear
The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure. James Rainwater
understanding individual persons
Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely. Friedrich Schleiermacher
understanding fascination research
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter. Frederick Sanger
understanding tests capacity
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity. George Gissing
understanding boards records
[Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre. Jon Brion
understanding add able
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. Ludwig Wittgenstein
understanding language assuming
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language Louis Pasteur
understanding circumstances understanding-yourself
It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience. Lupita Nyong'o
understanding intellectual culture
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye
understanding furniture common
In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding. Olympia Brown
understanding mind needs
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future; the freedom to get beyond ourselves...in states of mind that allow us to rise above our immediate surroundings and see the beauty and value of the world we live in. Oliver Sacks
understanding may overcoming
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. Norman Vincent Peale
understanding weakness strive
We should strive to understand the weakness of others. Ellen G. White
understanding add body
Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality. Epicurus
understanding desire please
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. Epicurus
understanding
Everybody's not really understanding what we need to do. We shouldn't be in this predicament.
understanding voluntary
It's our understanding that it is a voluntary resignation,
understanding
I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father. Robert Gossett
understanding
I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become. Nikki Reed
understanding brain taught
There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand. Niccolo Machiavelli
understanding littles messi
Little by little, Leo [Messi] and I are understanding each other better. Neymar
understanding criminals thrive
Criminals thrive on society's understanding. Newt Gingrich
understanding patient
We have to rethink, how do we get a complete 360-degree understanding of the patient? Newt Gingrich
understanding suffering lack-of-understanding
Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others. Nhat Hanh
understanding blame argument
No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. Nhat Hanh
understanding listening suffering
Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter. Nhat Hanh
understanding mind helping
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding. Nhat Hanh
understanding given explanation
If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given. Nelson Goodman
understanding make-sense
We have this huge, massive information, but what is it that matters? What doesn't matter? What makes sense, what doesn't make sense? You have to have a framework for understanding and of interpretation in order to make use of the information. Noam Chomsky