Understanding Quotes

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.

Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs.

I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.

All dread those things they don't understand.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.

Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had.

Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.

If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.

You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.

Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.

If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.

Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it.

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.

Truth stands for Taking Real Understanding To Heart.

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.

I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.

Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.