Understanding Quotes

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.

Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are.

For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

I like to say understanding is the power.

Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.

When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.

Do we want something more from our car? ... To perhaps be a partner, a coach, someone that can use their understanding of the situation to help us reach our potential.

She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding.

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue.

That's what I love about the Pleiadians. It allows people to start understanding their own human process and understand the dynamic that is going on on the planet right now.

I think Donald Trump is simply incapable of sticking to a single message. Or of understanding that he doesn't know better than everyone else in every circumstance.

When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.

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.

On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.

The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.