Understanding Quotes - Page 27

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

You can't recover from what you do not understand.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

When you understand the values of God's kingdom, you will best understand His agenda.4 However, it is my conviction that the message of the kingdom, and the values therein, are sorely lacking in understanding today.