Understanding Quotes - Page 25

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary.

My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.