Understanding Quotes - Page 16

But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Maybe if you're younger you have more energy - but that's a big maybe. Because at this stage of life, I have more patience, understanding, wisdom, resources - and a husband. I didn't get him until I was 39. But I got a good one.

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.

We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.

Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.