Understanding Quotes · Page 39

“Understanding was coming so fast, it seemed to bypass thought.”

— J.K. Rowling

In pursuit of happiness the hardest step is to understanding our own self

— Rahul A

The greatest wealth a man can have is an understanding wife.

— Euripides

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“I need to make sense of it - to understand how I could care this much and why I can’t let go…”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

— William Arthur Ward

You never understand a person until you consider things from his own point of view.

— Harper Lee

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly…

— Anonymous

Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me,…

— Trinh T. Minh-ha

I think Donald Trump is simply incapable of sticking to a single message. Or of understanding that he doesn't know better than…

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

— Steven Bochco

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding…

— Donnie Yen

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's…

— Rebecca Miller

My goal is to communicate how powerful the breaking down of artistic barriers can be when grounded in thought, intention, and a…

— Sid Sriram

The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have…

— Pearl S. Buck

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization,…

— Carl Jung

When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand…

— Thomas Reid

Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to…

— D.T. Suzuki

All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious…

— David Hume

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not…

— David Hume

One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind…

— Noam Chomsky

When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man…

— William Shakespeare

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

We never know the love of a parent till we come parents ourselves.

— Anonymous

Talk to your enemies; sometimes ignorance comes from a lack of understanding.

— Jessie Reyez

“Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.”

— Jon Meacham

“Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.”

— Huston Smith

“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.

— Anonymous

“We are products of the lack of understanding of the people who raised us up.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

— Ang Lee

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product.

— Charles Duhigg

The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.

— Harvey Diamond

“Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?”

— Gary Shteyngart

My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.

— Anonymous

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

— Libba Bray

“We have an understanding. I don’t laugh at his skirt, and he doesn’t rip my head off.” -Fi Skirata”

— Karen Traviss