Quotes about understanding

She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself the silly ones could never understand her wisdom whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

No one could possibly understand my purest feelings but I couldn't care less My deepest yearnings are nobody's goddamn business anyway

It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position.

The high-minded pursuit of a Jiu Jitsu practitioner pursuing mastery cannot coexist well with the modern world. Our values vary immensely from our contemporaries. This pursuit leaves societal norms slaughtered in our wake. Those who share this journey will praise our efforts those in the hive will think we have lost it. We must be willing to be misunderstood if we are to understand ourselves.

Maybe you don’t need to understand her maybe you just need to want to.

خفض صوتك الى مستوى افكاريLower your voice to reach my thinking level.

A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at!

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few.

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.

People say: 'Let the facts speak for themselves' they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood.

Unfortunately most people do not listen with the intent to understand they listen with the intent to reply.

I am sorry for when I do it hopefully one day you'll realise why. Please do not be angry just understand that today I tried.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

Not to understand is profound to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside to understand is to be on the outside.

I don't profess any religion I don't think it’s possible that there is a God I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.']

We are each other's harvest we are each other's business we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Just as every challenge helps us in evolving similarly every difficult person gives us the opportunity to be more understanding and humane.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.

One of the main keys to understanding the purpose of your life it is to ask yourself the question “What is an activity that I would do even if I am not paid

Logic only tells us what's there it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

It was fortunate that love did not need words or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

You should not judge you should understand.

He who knows ignorance well shall least know understanding well he who knows understanding well shall surely know and understand ignorance well

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Reading Plato should be easy understanding Plato can be difficult.

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I love rings, but I can't wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, 'Go to the races.' I think it's the best place to start understanding the Irish.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it.

It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.

In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Expressionism or Minimalism is, but you aren't given the chance to appreciate the mind of an artist.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

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.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

I can make all the throws. My mental side is a strength as far as understanding defense schemes and our playbook. I'm able to change plays when needed. I think that sets me apart.

A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.

Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.