Understanding Quotes · Page 49

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

— Ariel Durant

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

— George Etherege

Baseball could end tomorrow but you're just understanding that God is in control of it and we are not.

— Clayton Kershaw

“A perfect love is not all about devotion and loyalty, it is understanding little tiny things.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

— Samuel Richardson

We need to do a better job of understanding what the world is.

— Cameron Esposito

Uncertainty in oneself leads to certainty and understanding of all other things.

— Chardonnay Tyson

Teens are like books hard to read but if you look at them close enough you would understand them really well.

— Anonymous

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was,…

— Yolanda King

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and…

— Bob Galvin

“The cross, what precedes it, what it was, what it displays, what it accomplished, and what it will bring about, is the…

— Eric Gilmour

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to…

— Sean M. Carroll

The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding…

— Francis Bacon

I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a…

— Geena Davis

The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

— Karl Rove

Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand. It is true that the primary thing that makes me excited about what…

— Mark Zuckerberg

'Captives' was a deliberate bridging exercise, an attempt to use detailed knowledge of what Britain was like on the inside, to reach…

— Linda Colley

If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions, which is love of God. But if we…

— Sri Chinmoy

“You cannot expect the man who made this shield to live easily under the rule of man who worked the sheath of…

— Rosemary Sutcliff

With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured…

— Ronald Steel

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law,I don't care how…

— Paul Castellano

I don't think a lot of people have been privy to understanding that there's this talent in hip-hop all over the earth…

— Chuck D

I am now in a place where I have to be truer to myself first before anyone else. If you're not real,…

— Eric Benet

For me, understanding your heritage and wanting to leave a legacy was always important to me.

— C. J. McCollum

“When all is said and done, a single word, “understanding,” is the beacon light of our studies —MARC BLOCH”

— Helmut Walser Smith

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

— John Bunyan

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.

— Robert Ley

Loneliness has nothing to do with how many people you have around you, but how many of them understand you.

— Anonymous

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

— John Burdett

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

— Nhat Hanh

You never know what people are going through. Some are good at hiding it. Be considerate and understanding.

— Cheyenne

A great marriage is when there's understanding and friendship and not one which just demands for respect.

— Terry Mark

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“...there is something about understanding that comforts me, even if I don't like what I understand.”

— Wendy Walker

“Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

Finally I understand little things are the most important in life.

— Anonymous

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

— Kathy Acker

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

— John Arbuthnot

Trying to understand you is like trying to smell the color 9.

— Anonymous