Understanding Quotes

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Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither… — Rudolf Arnheim
Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding. — Abdul Kalam
There may be love, understanding love, all around us, and yet we may be needing some word of life in our own soul, something that… — Amy Carmichael
All of manâ€™s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application. — Edwin Louis Cole
All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it… — Radhanath Swami
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state… — Lord Chesterfield
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless… — Saint Augustine
The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no… — Ajahn Sumedho
Maturity is accepting the responsibility and totally understanding what responsibility means. So when we say, accept the responsibility for your attitude, we mean (1) become… — Thomas D
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight — Moses Mendelssohn
By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. — Vaclav Klaus
Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics. — Robert Nozick
Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing… — Reggie Watts
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and… — Otto Penzler
Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space,… — Anne Perry
We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be. — May Sarton
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the… — Rockwell Kent

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