Understanding Quotes

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding.

In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

Realization is more important than understanding

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call.

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens.

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

You want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our understanding rather than unwriting it.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.

I dont understand, but understanding something isnt a prerequisite to feeling it. We dont have to understand things in order to be affected by them.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.

Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.

Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.

This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I've been trying to catch up to it. Just trying to get with it, feel behind it a little bit, but that's good actually, probably. That way, I'm still sort of understanding it.

I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people's understanding can expand more easily.

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.

I don't define myself by my body's ability to execute gorgeous asana anymore. I'm all about taking care of my temple and understanding that its requirements change with age and time.

without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily