Understanding Quotes - Page 14

Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other.

There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we are somewhat limited in the proper use of color in rooms.

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.

I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

How does MINDEF intend to reduce uncertainties, enhance understanding, and improve coordination in the region and beyond through defence diplomacy apart from conferences and meetings?

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own

What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.

Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy, for their bound is set, and their limit known; but mind the Seed, which hath dominion over all. And forsake not the assembling of yourselves together in which you have found God and his promise and power and blessing amongst you, your understanding opened.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.

...realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making... All wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind- thought - is the only creator. The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstance.

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour