Understanding Quotes

5353 Understanding quotes by 3113 unique authors

My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world. — Joachim von Ribbentrop
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. — Ariel Durant
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may… — Khalil Gibran
A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of… — Sidney Hook
We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy.… — Al Franken
For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some… — Anthony Braxton
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
The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting a historical materialist… — Nancy Hartsock
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion. — Francis Schaeffer
I'm going with the understanding that I've done my duty. — Pep Guardiola
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the… — Sheila Jeffreys
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding. — Lawrence M. Krauss
So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn't have hubris and think that we can… — Max Tegmark
There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a… — Brian Greene
We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason… — Sean M. Carroll
The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away.… — E. O. Wilson
The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were… — Harry Crews
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. — Donald Knuth
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. — Frederick Buechner
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love — Ruth St. Denis

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