Understanding Quotes - Page 34

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.

In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.

I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being; it's the design of speech; it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.

No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.