Understanding Quotes · Page 64

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

— George Orwell

“You can love completely without complete understanding.”

— Norman MacLean

What a man calls his conscience is merely the sentimental reaction after too much wine and love.

— Helen Rowland

“Be bad and understand the good. Rather than being good and understanding bad.”

— V B Eudaimonia

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

— Charlotte Lamb

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

— Deepak Chopra

You learn a lot about people when youlisten to songs that mean something to them.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed…

— Ian Mckellen

It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens.

— Jon Kyl

All a girl wants from her boy is that he should understand and take into consideration her feelings when he plans to…

— Evan Ceaser

Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but…

— Hippocrates

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

— Barack Obama

Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness,…

— Chris Wood

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to…

— Ramon Llull

The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and…

— Zhang Zhao

I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it…

— Ava DuVernay

The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations…

— Albert Einstein

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing…

— Walter Benjamin

The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible…

— Charles Spurgeon

The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well…

— Ajahn Sumedho

Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you…

— Sydney Banks

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the…

— Stephen Wolfram

In our current understanding of science, we can't find the physical gap in which to slip free will - the uncaused causer…

— David Eagleman

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.

— Benjamin Spock

Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'

— Brandi Snyder

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

— Salvador Dali

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

— Nhat Hanh

Understanding language is core to a lot of Google products such as Gmail.

— Jeff Dean

Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.

— Lawrence Fagg

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

— Bill Bryson

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

— David Hawkins

“Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood”

— Fredrich Nietzsche

If someone is stupid enough 2 walk away be smart enough 2 let them leave~

— DeAngelo Stokes

I think we're moving toward moments of grace and understanding. And I think these things take time.

— Colum McCann

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

— Mike Svob

“Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.”

— Wally Lamb We Are Water

I can forgive you for everything, except for not understanding that I was in love with you.

— Anonymous

My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It's affected every aspect of my life.

— Valentina Shevchenko