Understanding Quotes - Page 76

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.

Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task.

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

Wisdom lies in understanding our limitations.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

To understand is to forgive.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.