Understanding Quotes · Page 397

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the…

— Alice Walker

A good relationship doesn't need any promises, terms or conditions, just two people who can trust and understand.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need…

— Kenneth Tynan

If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.

— Frederick Lenz

“the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels…

— Garth Greenwell

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation…

— E. M. Forster

We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins)…

— G. C. Berkouwer

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming…

— Alice Walker

It's the simple thing's in life that's hard to understand for reasons not understood

— Linda Ward

Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

— Van Day Truex

A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell…

— Lee Smolin

On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked,…

— George A. Sheehan

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that…

— David Blunkett

As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the…

— Mark Walport

“Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no…

— Mark Slouka

In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the…

— Kehinde Wiley

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For…

— James Tobin

“Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't…

— François Lelord

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure…

— Arianna Huffington

But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice…

— Simon Greenleaf

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

— Aleister Crowley

“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is…

— Ray Bradbury

Girls on SQ tell me awkward things but I'm engaged with a girl so please leave me alone

— Joshua Howard Altman