Understanding Quotes

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the world, the poet is just one more reader.

The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

My time in the Army gave me an understanding for what it takes to provide for our national security and what it means to our service members and their families.

Ronald Reagan's career was so unusual, so unprecedented, that this would be very interesting to learn, to gain understanding of his way of looking at the world.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions.

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system.

Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.

Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?

When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play.

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.

The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting the number.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.

I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have a better understanding of what it is to be a major league pitcher.

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

All understanding begins in wonder!

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

Communication comes with practice. As a leader you must speak the truth; listen for understanding; and learn from what you hear and do not hear.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.