Understanding Quotes · Page 34

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

— Michel de Montaigne

“One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.”

— Seth D

I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.

— Pauline Oliveros

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

— Anonymous

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

— Anonymous

“We want nothing from you that you do without grace,” Mrs Whatsit said, “or that you do without understanding.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.

— Gisela Richter

Always put yourself in the others shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

— Abhishek Tiwari

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by…

— Anonymous

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other…

— Bernie Krause

You need to understand life enough and at the same time be ready to endure the consequences of your actions, because every…

— Kemmy Nola

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

— Morris Kline

When I first came out about my breast cancer, I didn't want to talk about it, but I had to, because young…

— Christina Applegate

Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy,…

— Julian Treasure

“A lot of people vest their blind faith in machine learning because they find it much easier than developing deep understanding. For…

— Ray Dalio

The sex of spouses has nothing to do with why relationships fail. They fail for lack of love or, more precisely, for…

— Norah Vincent

The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences and ideas dragged…

— Anonymous

All the time I was plowing through books on dyslexia, I found myself asking: what if, what if? What if you were…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that…

— Gilberto Gil

You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is…

— Anonymous

The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand…

— Santiago Calatrava

The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet…

— John Gorrie

Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative…

— Kristen Stewart

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and…

— Mark Hatfield

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

— Khalil Gibran

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

— Ivan van Sertima

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

— Elias Canetti

“Their love was thus seeded in the rich soil of mutual understanding.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

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

— Ted Cruz

I'm responsible for what I say and mean, not what you understand from it :)

— Anas

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding? -Job 12:12

— Bible

Life is full of good times, but the ups and downs of life have made it so difficult to understand.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love.”

— Thomas Jay Oord

“Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Knowing something is always never enough understanding it, is "Key”

— Emmanuel Serenity

“We fear what we don’t understand and find serenity in what we’re incapable of understanding..”

— Scott Hildreth

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

— Soren Kierkegaard

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

— Charles Simmons

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

— Robert Lanza