Understanding Quotes - Page 4

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!

To rely solely on logic is in essence to operate within a structure of limited knowledge and understanding

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

To have understanding is not to be religious

Religion means peace! Faith means understanding!

Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing, the way you understood yourself.

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best intentions. And this has strained our bonds of understanding and common purpose.But Americans, I think, have a great advantage. To renew our unity, we only need to remember our values. We have never been held together by blood or background. We are bound by things of the spirit – by shared commitments to common ideals.

If you wish gain understanding, turn away from evil.

Knowing is never the same with understanding.

When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.

It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming the world without an understanding of what to do with their time.

To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart.

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution.

It is easy to fall, but hard to rise.

I know the you who’s in the margins. I know you’re thinking hard about what you want and why– more than some people ever do. I know you can take on a challenge and kick its ass. And I know you’ve tried harder to understand me than anyone has in a long time.

Understanding do not come by being religious

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

Be yourself because you weren't born to be anyone else

The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is their understanding of what to do with time.

you’re so afraid of everyone pitying you that you’d rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness"- Stacey Michaels

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

Shiva and Saleem, victor and victim; understand our rivalry, and you will gain understanding of the age in which you live. (The reverse of this statement is also true.)

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

He who becomes his most truthful self, becomes the leader for everyone else.

One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.

Understanding spirituality means that every day anger, pride, deceit and greed continue to decrease, will not increase.

You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom.

The spirit is willing but the body is weakLead us then our Savoir that we may not slumberOh Jehovah! Oh Jehovah!Thy strength we beseech to get to the endSo we may render a good account of our arduous journey to the endThe spirit is willing but the body is weakLead us then our Savoir that we may not slumberWell done, good and faithful servants you shall sayUnto they that shall be faithful with a few things in their days.Come and share your Master’s happiness you shall sayUnto they that diligently made their hay in the day.Oh Jehovah! Oh Jehovah! Grant us Thy power to be faithful in our days!The spirit is willing but the body is weak.Lead us then our Savoir that we may not slumber.Certain paths we know seem leading to your throne.But there is only one path to Thy throne we yearn to know;The path of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus!Come to me all you who grow weary He exclaims!Easy is His yoke; lighter is His burden! Our hearts and minds; our burden!The spirit is willing but the body is weak.Lead us then our Savoir that we may not slumber.The end draws nearer and nearer as we take steps to the end.Many are the things we need to do before we get to the end.But many are the things that take our attention as we journey to the end.A heart of understanding oh Jehovah we beseech;that we may do all things pleasant to Thee with understanding.The spirit is willing but the body is weak.Lead us then our Savoir that we may not slumber.

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.

Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you.

Words are powerful instruments. Handle them and your understanding level of new information will grow in a spectacular way.

There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding, waiting for me to grasp it. It is the same tantalizing sensation when you almost remember a name, but don't quite reach it. I can feel it when I think of human beings, of the hints of evolution suggested by the removal of wisdom teeth, the narrowing of the jaw no longer needed to chew such roughage as it was accustomed to; the gradual disappearance of hair from the human body; the adjustment of the human eye to the fine print, the swift, colored motion of the twentieth century. The feeling comes, vague and nebulous, when I consider the prolonged adolesence of our species; the rites of birth, marriage and death; all the primitive, barbaric ceremonies streamlined to modern times. Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best. Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.

In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an 'aesthetic aha.

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?"One child said, "The misuse of power is the root of all evil?"Alice said, "Well...."Another child said, "There is no justice on the earth?"Alice said, "Well..."Another child said, "We are all alone in the world?"Alice said, "Well..."Another child said, "The greatest depth of our loss is the beginning of true freedom?"Alice said, "Well..."Another child said, "The disposal of human waste is the responsibility of the brokenhearted?"These were all phrases Alice had put on the chalkboard after other field trips. It occurred to Alice, hearing these phrases now, that she might have attempted to do too much with a class of fourth graders. She was willing to admit to some excesses.Alice said, "Just listen.

Some things are more than we can understand.

When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ( "Looking for the unexpected" )

There's a logical reason for everything in the universe even if we cannot comprehend, understand, or express that reason.

Good is equal to Order While,Evil is equal to FreedomDoes it make sense to you? It does for me.

Not knowing who you are is a certain kind of hell.

I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.

It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.

Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood.

Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence.

Some of us manage to think bigger, brighter, deeper thoughts. Some of these thoughts already shape the kind of research we do. Some of them will prove to be right, and our understanding of our home will deepen. Our home, one day, will be less of a mystery to us.

I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself.