Understanding Quotes - Page 149

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote their conscience, and if their conscience leads them that way, they should follow their conscience.

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.

A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least an understanding of science, not necessarily a science degree but you must have a feeling for the science and its possibilities and its impossibilities, otherwise you're writing fantasy. Now, fantasy is also fine, but there is a distinction, although no one's ever been able to say just where the dividing lines come.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior.

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.