Understanding Quotes

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.

Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

I have a great support team. I have very understanding parents that do not put too much pressure on me, and I have close friends that I lean on for support.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands.

Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.

A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being.

By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable for people to engage in it.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

[Hillary Clinton] is part of the establishment, and that's good for foreign policy and for understanding the ongoing health care system.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.

Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ.