Understanding Quotes - Page 46

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

Be first the master of yourself

It takes a great man to make a great listener

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

There's time for a boyfriend in my life. But he would have to be understanding. He would have to understand that often I will be travelling and playing.

The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by its nature, the understanding that all phenomenal existence, the universe, or cosmos, that we experience is feminine in nature.

If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.

If you're tracking with a character that's running off a thing and diving off, I would leave the camera there and not follow them down, because cameras don't do that. The audience understands that. I'll definitely bring that understanding of keeping things a bit more grounded.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.