Understanding Quotes · Page 23

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

— Aleister Crowley

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

— Carlos Castaneda

“Understanding is getting under the stand of someone so everyone can be lifted.”

— Hope D. Blackwell

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

— Jeremy Collier

Widening a garment or making it larger is not understanding the real curves of a plus size women.

— Ashley Nell Tipton

“But I have gained an understanding over time, and that’s what I want to share with you in these pages.”

— Chrystal Evans Hurst

I'm not always the best with expressing emotions and understanding my emotions.

— Aquaria

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied…

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

— Lord Chesterfield

“Words can give us knowledge and understanding. They can tell us of things as they once were, as they should be, or…

— M.L. Forman

There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and…

— Plutarch

“Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more…

— Anonymous

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every…

— Jesse James Garrett

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious…

— Stanislav Grof

“He felt the journal in his pocket. It was like a pair of glasses that he had worn for a time, enabling…

— Rebecca Rash

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound…

— Robert Breault

The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by…

— Konrad Lorenz

The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level…

— Richard P. Feynman

Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that…

— Theodora Goss

I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's…

— Thomas E. Mann

“I get a letter once a week from my mama. She say everything fine at home.. I write her back too, when…

— Winston Groom

Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

There's an understanding of common prayer that I think we're seeing grow, more and more. When I travel, I hear from people…

— Shane Claiborne

Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.

— Eminem

Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

— Wes Fesler

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

— Jack Kornfield

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

— Christopher Paolini

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

— Anne Tyler

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

— Paul Rand

“To believe is indeed to lose the understanding in order to gain God.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

— Plutarch

We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.

— Margaret Thatcher

“It is that truth sometimes feels like cruelty to hear, makes it no less the truth.”

— Gillian Duce

“Jealousy is the lock that closes your heart, understanding is the key that opens it.”

— Ken Petti

It's impossible to know what someone truly feel about You, only You know what you truly feel about someone.

— Anonymous

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

— Confucius

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

— Francis Schaeffer