Understanding Quotes

5353 quotes by 3283 authors

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. — Nicolas Cage
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding… — Tony Campolo
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. — Albert Camus
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack… — Albert Camus
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. — Albert Camus
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. — Thomas Carlyle
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding… — Benjamin Carson
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by… — Charlie Chaplin
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. — Lord Chesterfield
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. — Lord Chesterfield
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a… — Lord Chesterfield
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding… — Deepak Chopra
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. — Chin-Ning Chu
I am easily satisfied with the very best. — Winston Churchill
In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife… — Tim Allen
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any… — John Henrik Clarke
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old… — George Clooney
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho
I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding… — John Abizaid

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