Understanding Quotes

The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

Understanding that celebrity derives from and is a result of some form of accomplishment, it's always gratifying to work with individuals who have made some sort of contribution to society.

A strict master will not have understanding sons.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

Some things were beyond understanding.

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

I do love fish, and I thought it was healthy without understanding the high mercury levels that fish like tuna, swordfish and halibut can contain.

Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

The understanding of fear cures fear.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.

Hillary Clinton has no understanding of the economy at all.

If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.