Own Understanding Quotes

46 quotes by 41 authors

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail… — Oswald Chambers
Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe… — Laozi
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own… — Arlo Guthrie
Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where… — Jerry Uelsmann
I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too… — Byron Katie
Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding,… — Frederic Bastiat
My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it… — Carl Jung
Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who… — Charles Hodge
Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation... when adults listen-really listen-to what the children are trying to say,… — Carol Bowman
For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play. — Hans-Georg Gadamer
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by… — Ted Dekker
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the… — Martin Luther
It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again. — Marisha Pessl
The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what… — David Jeremiah
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if… — Immanuel Kant
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going… — Meryl Streep
In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for… — Debbie Ford
Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of… — Jane Rule
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. — Mary Astell

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