“My faculty for disappointment surpasses understanding. It is what lets me comprehend Buddha, but also what keeps me from following him.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Communication comes with practice. As a leader you must speak the truth; listen for understanding; and learn from what you hear and… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective… — James Robison Copy Share Image
Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I understand you love me and you didn't mean to hurt me. So please understand me when I choose to walk away… — Martina Leal Copy Share Image
“What is true forgiveness? M: It is understanding that each creation has their own method of learning and producing, and they’re entitled… — Michael Newton Copy Share Image
That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's… — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
“A crucial point here is that understanding is not only a matter of reflection, using finitary propositions, on some preexistent, already determinate… — Mark Johnson Copy Share Image
On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked,… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Who is blameless? Only those that blame no one for aught that is, has been or may be. Only in creating hope,… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“Love is a chemical reaction, But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“This book is not of today or of the future. It tells of no place. It serves no cause, party or class.… — Thea von Harbou Copy Share Image
There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity. ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of… — Anna Kingsford Copy Share Image
The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
My understanding of Heaven has expanded and deepened since my first encounter with visions and dreams of Heaven. — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficient knowledge will always cause… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a… — John Denver Copy Share Image
I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one. — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Understanding Scripture in a language other than the heart language in which we think and experience emotion is "like trying to eat… — William Cameron Townsend Copy Share Image
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
