Understanding Quotes

We need to remember that trade is a great peacemaker that enriches people and increases international understanding and ties between nations.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.

Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.

To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

A language Older Than Words

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.

There is a strong sense of understanding, appreciation, shared responsibility, and trust that unites and motivates the team to work together.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think "with the bark off" and you have the courage to do it.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

Psychic phenomena does not mean wisdom; it only means mental understanding of the relationship of the outer world to the inner world.

Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

We need leaders who can reflect theologically and help develop more robust thinking that understands how context affects our understanding of God, humankind, the fall, and redemption.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.

Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.