The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
In the run towards being a better human being, we must recognize that other people's value systems are no less important than… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I want my kids to have a balanced view. I don't want them to grow up with a close-minded corridor-vision mentality. I… — Guy Sebastian Copy Share Image
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“How long does it take to see something, to know someone? If you put in years, you realize how little you grasped… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding… — Wu Han Copy Share Image
This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I must have had an early leaning toward business. Not that I had an understanding of this when I was 10 years… — Philip Anschutz Copy Share Image
Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don't know why. It's beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“First, come to the point where you realize you are alone, completely and utterly alone in the vastness of the universe and… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
With understanding, you can endure more, sacrifice more, learn more, trust more , know more… In fact it is the basic ingredient… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems. — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
A real relationship must consist of two primary characters, one who knows how to trust, and one capable to understand. — Elian Martinez Copy Share Image
Everyone knows innovation involves developing unique understanding of a market, thinking expansively to develop a solution, and then finding a way to… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of… — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Trust all challenges that lie before you are ultimately for your benefit. It is through the unthinkable challenges in life that you… — Miss A Copy Share Image
Some people think maturity is to do with age. In fact maturity are those who have learned from their mistakes, have a… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image