Understanding Quotes

What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.

Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

Ever since [Ronald] Reagan, they've been able to capture the message and an understanding - or persuade people of a certain understanding of what the nation is about and what's good for it.

Cindy is a terrific writer and has both a studied - and an intuitive - understanding of the best practices of no-hype, high results copywriting.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

Acceptance comes through understanding.

We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

Understanding and admitting that you have an issue is the first way to change. When you quit a toxic habit, you leave room for something beautiful to take its place.

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.

I think data is incredibly powerful for understanding what people are thinking and for allocating resources.

We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.

You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about.

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America.

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.