Understanding Quotes · Page 24

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...

— Anonymous

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

— Raymond Holliwell

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

“Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.”

— Allan Lokos

“When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.”

— C.S. Lewis

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

— Edward Tufte

It's hard to really move on when you're yet to understand why you broke up in the first place.

— Terry Mark

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience;…

— Klaus Balkenhol

There are other planets besides the Earth and Mars. I'd like to remind you that studying Venus is vital to understanding life…

— David Grinspoon

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

— Ernest Rutherford

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy…

— Francis Crick

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you…

— Donald Glover

You have everyright to choose not to be with someone, but at least tell them why, because what's even worse than being…

— Timothy Delvecc

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call…

— Richard P. Feynman

If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone…

— Kelvin Ogilvie

I see it in a lot of period pieces where everybody is standing and talking, in a stilted, archaic way, instead of…

— Ato Essandoh

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs…

— Johann Georg Hamann

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul…

— Marina Abramovic

Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender…

— Rajneesh

I think as much as the city is changing us, our experience inside the city also changes. I think, a city like…

— Tamer El Said

Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new…

— Gary Zukav

Love is being accepting of all of their flaws. Love is being understanding and compassionate. Love is realizing that they are going…

— Haley Pullos

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

— Kristin Armstrong

There is always a difference between understanding to admit the situation and to pretend toward the situation.

— Simphiwe Ntuli

“The Tree of Life is really all about the understanding that we are all dependent upon each other.”

— Lee Vickers

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

— Henry A. Wallace

A peaceful relationship results from mutual understanding

— Anne Nwakama

In particular, I am interested in understanding hyperbolic surfaces.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

— Ben Jonson

“A clear understanding of how much I don't know about medicine is one of my greatest strengths”

— Oscar London

Friendship donot need much of words, A mere piece of understanding is enough.

— Gulshan Agarwal

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

— Winifred Holtby

“Closure and reason are impossible. Understanding, on the other hand, is the best you can hope for.”

— Gabe Habash

Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.

— Niko Kovac

“Understanding is the weapon of the Wise. Explore it fearlessly. Use it openly with caution. ☥”

— Luis Marques

Understanding comes through communication, and through communication we find the way to peace.

— Ralph C. Smedley

“A calm person knows their business, their words are few, but they tell and looks like it is well planned.”

— Rashid Jorvee

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

— Bruce Cockburn