Understanding Quotes · Page 41

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

When you're watching a cartoon and you understand the dirty joke that you never understood as a kid.

— Anonymous

“Having and understanding of the 'why' will help having an understanding of the 'how'.”

— Bobby Darnell

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

— Atul Gawande

Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.

— Max De Pree

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

— Ambrose Bierce

Learning to count is good. Learning what counts is better.

— Anonymous

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

— William James

“It’s very important to understand why you do the things you do. Your understanding will make you work harder and be passionate,…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce…

— Malcolm X

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of…

— Terry Riley

“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no…

— William Glasser M.D

Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.

— Erin Heatherton

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

— Lord Chesterfield

We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered…

— Dalai Lama

Knowing something and understanding everything is better. Than knowing everything but don't understand anything.

— Pacifiersucker

You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden…

— Norton Juster

...Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. - where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever…

— Frithjof Schuon

Begin your bodybuilding lifestyle with an open mind, an open heart, a lot of patience and understanding. With the right discipline and…

— Robert Cheeke

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the…

— Carl Sagan

The National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really…

— Robert Bork

What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to…

— Henri Poincare

I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality…

— Tori Amos

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He…

— Libba Bray

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.

— Heraclitus

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

— Albert Bandura

We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.

— Geneen Roth

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

— Wangari Maathai

If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.

— Anonymous

“Greatness comes from understanding that which cannot be taught.”

— JP West

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

— Gordon Getty

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Do not worry if others do not understand you, worry only if you can not understand yourself.

— Anonymous

The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them,

— Niels Diffrient

We're moving from a centralized understanding of the world to a decentralized understanding of the world.

— Mike Cernovich

The best relationship is composed of an understanding girlfriend together with a loyal and honest boyfriend.

— Anonymous

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

— Saib Tabrizi

Everyone dies without understanding anything. Thats the way the world works, after all.

— Yusuke Kishi

The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.

— Viktor Schauberger

A miracle is understanding oneself. The rest is just knowledge.

— Ruben Papian