Understandings Quotes

54 Understandings quotes by 42 unique authors

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails… — Samuel Johnson
You, and you alone, decide what something means to you. Yet this is a decision that most people make based upon past feelings, experiences, understandings,… — Neale Donald Walsch
I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the… — Robert Rauschenberg
In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man. — John Donne
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings. — Lord Chesterfield
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend… — Frederick Lenz
You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to… — Frederick Lenz
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. — William Hazlitt
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is… — Simon Callow
In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings… — Jonathan Ive
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops. — John Katzman
To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew… — Samuel Johnson
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by… — Michel de Montaigne
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge. — Lord Chesterfield
Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof;… — Robert Emmet
It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception… — Frederick Lenz
I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that. — Marion Cotillard
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. — William Hazlitt
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level… — Tony Robbins
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty… — John Woolman
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with… — Jack Kerouac
No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the… — Rajneesh
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as… — John Adams
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings.… — William Blake
Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you… — Gary Zukav

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