Understanding Quotes · Page 42

A true friend applauds your strengths, understands your weaknesses and appreciates the combination that is you.

— Anonymous

“[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”

— Democritus

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

— Bill Johnson

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

— Richard Dawkins

“Understanding and discovering yourself is a critical aspect of your life”

— Sunday Adelaja

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

— Ameen Rihani

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

— Ann Richards

As long as you trust in everything the world tells you, you can't make up your own mind about what's right or…

— Anonymous

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own…

— Vincent Massey

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age…

— Milan Kundera

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

— Anthony Standen

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What…

— Amado Nervo

The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in…

— Daniel Kahneman

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it…

— Tina Brown

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition…

— Tim Minchin

To replace the old paradigm of war with a new paradigm of waging peace, we must be pioneers who can push the…

— Paul K. Chappell

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world,…

— Barack Obama

Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled…

— Jack Kornfield

Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or…

— Herb Kohl

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be…

— Charles Dudley Warner

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is…

— Anonymous

In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of…

— Lisa Randall

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

— Emmanuel Serenity

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

— Sharon Salzberg

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

— Bible

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Thomas Jay Oord

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

— Vikrant Parsai

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

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

— Jacqueline Winspear

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.

— Woody Allen

Knowing what you know and not understanding what you know can hinder application of what you know.

— Frank Matobo

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

— Robert Lanza

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

— Charles Simmons

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Scott Hildreth

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

— Seth D