Understanding Quotes

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and other controversies, they are not understanding the world right now.

Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

If the party of gloom is ever to regain its footing, it will have to start by understanding that those who defeated them are not a bunch of ignorant yahoos looking forward to Armageddon.

Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself."

The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.

The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.

You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine the new understanding, and , it it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.

You can choose to be willing for a new understand of God and Life to now be brought forth, and understanding that could produce a new way of life on your planer.

One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be.

Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

Criminals thrive on society's understanding.

We have to rethink, how do we get a complete 360-degree understanding of the patient?

In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.

By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga.

Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

It is quite sad, to me, that that ideal, that vision and understanding [of American founding ], doesn't seem to be a part of the current political season.

There's the unique case of Ronald Reagan, who cited [founders] some 850 times, and in a way that was absolutely fundamental to understanding Reagan's vision for America.

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.

I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.