Understanding Quotes · Page 85

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

— Mikhail Lermontov

I now understand more clearly than I ever had before why you won in November 1980 and I lost.

— Jimmy Carter

...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

— Elizabeth Lesser

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

— Socrates

The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.

— Doug Berry

I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.

— John Shelby Spong

Understanding is a lot like sex; it’s got a practical purpose, but that’s not why people do it normally.

— Frank Oppenheimer

Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.

— Roy Peter Clark

The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking…

— Anonymous

Jordan had phenomenal talent. He had phenomenal understanding. But he also had a mentality that I haven't seen. He had a sense…

— B. J. Armstrong

As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“Easy to Understand, but profound wisdom for women seeking a deeper understanding of what happens to their bodies and minds as they…

— Ivy Gilbert

My aspiration is that M&M become one of the most customer-centric organizations in the world. If we focus on understanding our customers,…

— Anand Mahindra

Some of the most beautiful and fulfilling things in life are often things that we have very little understanding of.

— Anonymous

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of…

— George Steiner

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its…

— Northrop Frye

If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would…

— Isaac Newton

Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of…

— Mahesh Babu

Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and…

— Heinrich Harrer

“Category management is something of a misnomer; category understanding may be a better goal. Category understanding should be an effort to see…

— Greg Thain

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives…

— Charles Lamb

I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my…

— Dan Burt

There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

— Rudyard Kipling

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

— Nick Bantock

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

— Jack Kornfield

When I understand my enemy well enough to DEFEAT him,then in that moment,I also LOVE him

— Andrew Ender Wiggin

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

— Anonymous

“...unlike knowledge, understanding cannot be taught. It must be achieved.”

— Dave Donovan

'Laramie' is a way in to replacing any hate in your heart with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.

— Asia Kate Dillon

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

— Deborah Tannen

A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.

— Corey Ford

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

— Michel de Montaigne

By undertaking many things, I have accomplished nothing.

— Hugo Grotius

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

— Guy Finley

Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it.

— G. Bruce Boyer

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

— Lou Holtz

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

— Anonymous