Quotes about understanding
understanding illness understanding-yourself
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally. Kay Redfield Jamison
understanding individuality identity
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. Oprah Winfrey
understanding doe world
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.
understanding knows
We understand more than we know. Margaret Atwood
understanding loyal dull
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. Margaret Cavendish
understanding misunderstanding
Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding. Elias Canetti
understanding reason particular
The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
understanding band gathering
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. Bruce Springsteen
understanding worship devotion
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God. Meher Baba
understanding looks metaphor
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. Mary Catherine Bateson
understanding needs world
Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love. Pope Francis
understanding gains sometimes
Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding. Peter Mullan
understanding tables matter
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry... Primo Levi
understanding aging increase
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging. Plutarch
understanding want able
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
understanding obedience
Obedience completes itself in understanding. Phillips Brooks
understanding true-understanding exposed
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish. Philip Yancey
understanding world may
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used. Polykarp Kusch
understanding tolerance anarchy
Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding. Terry Goodkind
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 goes-on matter
My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption. Ralph Waldo Emerson
understanding again-and-again
When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it. Shunryu Suzuki
understanding attention said
Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them. Marcus Aurelius
understanding-nature would-be fairy-tale
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. Marc Chagall
understanding perception awareness
A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life. Sidney Hook
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 conflict
Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace. Lester B. Pearson
understanding battle matter
I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go. Peter Berg