Understanding Quotes
The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.
To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding
I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.
They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.
... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.
I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.
A worldview is simply someone's relatively organized understanding of what the world is actually like.
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.
The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.
Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.
I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.
Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.
The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.
It is not for us to judge those who might be confused or who have not the strength to change. What they need is our understanding and support.
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end.
I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.
I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.
Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.
I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.
What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.
I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.
Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.
We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state.
Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.
I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.
I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright
I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.