Understanding Quotes - Page 44

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

If each one of us starts thinking, learning, and understanding more about water and the fact that we are water-based ourselves, then we can start to love, thank, and respect water in our daily lives.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

Hatred is toxic to you and those around you. The condition should be treated with understanding and love until it is healed.

I think there's a lack of understanding which is partly our fault as scientists and physicians in not communicating well enough with the public. But there's a lack of understanding of how important biomedical research is.

In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues.

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and back again from the whole thus reached to the particular significant facts.

Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.