Understanding Quotes · Page 65

Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring…

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

I didn't know what love was, I didn't realize what love meant, I didn't understand the feeling of waking up in the…

— Jesus Salazar

The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to…

— Richard Goldschmidt

Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

I would give Obama a "C." He gets an "A" for understanding this country's profound problems in education, health care, infrastructure, and…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.

— John Mayer

Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that…

— Ken Wilber

I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

— Robert Breault

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. But people with more understanding…

— Francis Schaeffer

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding…

— John Stuart Mill

Understanding is the reward of faith.

— Saint Augustine

God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

— Anonymous

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

— Sengcan

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures…

— Tom Freston

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,…

— Carl Jung

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

— Walter Lippmann

Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Elvis and me, we go three or four days sometimes without talking to each other. Sometimes even a week. I see Elvis,…

— Colonel Tom Parker

I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value…

— Jeff Zucker

A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved,…

— Lawrence Wright

The path to eternal life is not on a plateau. Rather, it is an incline, ever onward and upward. Hence, ever-increasing spiritual…

— Keith K. Hilbig

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the…

— Clement of Alexandria

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and…

— Thomas Friedman