Understanding Quotes

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people.

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.

My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

As our understanding of obedience deepens, we recognize the essential role of agency.

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for our intelligence.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character.

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

Now, people have a hard time understanding how taxes work.

If you have a full understanding of what we’re up against and the leadership of your country doesn’t, well, hello. That’s life in America today.

[Donald] Trump just said that he thinks his supporters will be okay and understanding with his decision not to prosecute the Clintons.

Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is.

Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and a feverent if incorrect understanding of design and anatomy.

If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again.

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Life's experiences should turn into real understanding.

Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.

The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams.

We have been cooperating with both the United States and Russia, have been actively supporting a greater understanding between them.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

You are responsible for understanding your limitations.

See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.

We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising

Everyone knows innovation involves developing unique understanding of a market, thinking expansively to develop a solution, and then finding a way to test rigorously and adapt quickly.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?"