Understanding Quotes - Page 45

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

There are no demands - undue demands... There are many questions we get? Why China? Why now and the answer is why not?... There is no any hidden agenda in our cooperation with China, it is a relationship based on mutual understanding and equality; they understand our situation.

One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

We should strive to understand the weakness of others.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

We can love someone without understanding that person.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act; doing becomes understanding.

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.