Understanding Quotes - Page 7

Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.

Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

To be understanding is more important than to be right.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient's disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

They condemn what they do not understand.

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.

It is the movement between the negative and positive poles that creates electricity. It is the attraction between the male and the female that creates new life. The dynamics of the universe are dialectical, apparently in a conflict, but occurring within a larger context of unity and wholeness. This is the understanding of the Tantra vision.

A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.