Understanding Quotes

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle.

This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a lot of our fellow citizens have.

The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

A respectful understanding of another's experience.

NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind.

With problems and issues groups face- there is an enormous disconnect between understanding and doing.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.

Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.

Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

You cannot escape from your past! But you can understand it! And once you understand it, you don't have to escape from it any longer! Understanding liberates you!

People change based on what they feel, not what they know. Which means that understanding all that advice doesn't matter if there's no deep, profound, visceral awareness of why it's important.

It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

An intelligent person is someone who listens with understanding.

Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.

Completely understand the customer by seeking an intense, complete and empathetic understanding.

Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

In the end, I would love [the audience] to be more open to the understanding of different types of personalities, you know?

If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.