Understanding Quotes - Page 84

Understanding and connection can transcend conflict.

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health.

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we forgive, we stiffen our spine and we hold a person accountable. And only then, in tough-minded judgment, can we do the outrageously impossible thing: we can forgive.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

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