Understanding Quotes

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.

There's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.

My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

It is the same with understanding as with eyes; to a certain size and make, just so much light is necessary, and no more. Whatever is beyond brings darkness and confusion.

Little by little people are understanding that we need to change, but whatever we decide to do in next 10 to 15 years will decide the future of biodiversity on Earth.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

We should all focus on trying to be compassionate to others at all times, and be as understanding as possible towards people we know are hurting. We should try to be there to lift each other up.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time.

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.