Understanding Quotes
Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
4193 Ram Mohan
Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.
3449 Simona Panova
Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...
3020 David W. Earle
When one person attempts to “fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.
1164 A.J. Darkholme
Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.
1904 Orson Scott Card
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.
1672 Hayley Williams
Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand
1688 J.K. Rowling
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
1368 Lemony Snicket
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
4405 Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
1817 Seth D.
One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.
3643 Ram Mohan
Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.
3762 D.K. LeVick
By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.
1479 Anna Wintour
It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.
3908 Henry James
She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.
1009 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Follow the path that leads to understanding. Only then, will you illuminate the way for others. Once you open your mind and gain knowledge, truth, you'll leave the darkness and enter into the light of wisdom.
2635 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Free your mind of that which you have no control. It is not only good to do so for your mental, but your overall health. Some people must learn from experience. You can convey knowledge to them and offer to show them the way. But, that doesn't mean your wisdom will be accepted or appreciated.
1294 Rodolfo Costa
Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.
3595 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Sometimes in life you find love so powerful that you get tunnel vision. You only see the one you love, the one you desire. No one or no thing gets in the way of what you feel. A love so strong which makes you feel invincible in this world. And, everywhere you go, all the people can see you glow.
3597 Elie Wiesel
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
1755 Louis L'Amour
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
2975 Ernest Hemingway
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
2586 Dejan Stojanovic
If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.
2106 Christopher Paolini
He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.
3596 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
No matter how hard you try, there are times when things just don't go as planned. And, it's not because you are doing something wrong. It is because the thing you are after is not designed for you. It is not a part of your destiny.
2879 Sanhita Baruah
I, sometimes, fear that probably I'll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I'll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do.
2307 Chuck Palahniuk
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.
1342 Michael Bassey Johnson
The impression in the colors of your profound words evokes an everlasting impression in the mind of whosoever hears it.
3806 Georgia O'Keeffe
The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.
1485 Kristina McMorris
The most wonderful type of love, she had learned, was the kind built with care and over time, through forgiveness and understanding, compromise and compassion, trust and acceptance. It was hidden in the minutiae of every day life; it was in the traded smiles during a radio show or the peaceful lulls on an evening stroll.
3288 Isidor Isaac Rabi
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.
1561 A.J. Darkholme
Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.
2449 Angelica Hopes
It is a joy to share good advice. It takes a grateful ear to listen wisely. It's always up for us to take the right action and fulfilling path that can truly serve for what is the best.
2818 Meredith Duran
For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!
1506 Ian McEwan
…the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped, what the wanted; tricks of rhetoric would not shift them.
2192 Michael Bassey Johnson
There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.
3191 Richelle E. Goodrich
There are things known - things experienced, felt, and understood - that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.
1171 John Geddes
...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...
1541 Gregory Maguire
I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.
3756 Bryant McGill
The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.
1297 Alberto Moravia
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
1834 Rachilde
Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.
3932 Isabella Poretsis
All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.
3244 John O'Callaghan
Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.
4333 Unarine Ramaru
If you love someone let them know, if you hate someone learn to love them.
3154 Robert Boyle
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.
3146 Brian Andreas
We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the crickets &
the dance of our voices
& for a moment
the world became
small enough to
roll back & forth
between us.
4925 Jeannette Walls
I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.
2854 Meister Eckhart
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
1061 Paulo Coelho
When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.
4025 Susan Kay
None of us can choose where we shall love...
3112 Marvin J. Ashton
Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
1602 Frederick Buechner
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
4504 Stephen Fry
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
2505 Ambrose Bierce
Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
1621 Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
4665 Joss Whedon
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.
4856 Craig Silvey
I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
2338 Tara Kelly
All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated.
1660 Anaïs Nin
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
4129 Sigmund Freud
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
3883 Neal Stephenson
She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.
1573 E.M. Forster
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
4556 Bob Ong
hindi dahil sa hindi mo naiintindihan ang isang bagay ay kasinungalingan na ito. at hindi lahat ng kaya mong intindihin ay katotohanan.
4514 Jodi Picoult
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
4201 Toba Beta
Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.
It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge.
3391 Toba Beta
The limited mind owned by human..
requires billions of brains of many generations,
before capable enough to understand the truth,
the kind of truth which will set us free.
2370 J.M. Coetzee
Erklären heißt verzeihen, erklärt zu werden heißt Verzeihung erlangen [...]
2057 Cyrus Panjvani
Clarity is like casting light. Clarity allows us to see better and eases the path of understanding. And just as one light source need not deny the illumination of another but can add to it, the understanding gained through one explanation can stand to gain from another, even if it is different in approach. The truth is more exclusive...
3763 Rebecca McNutt
You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.
4786 Elizabeth George
The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.
1272 Alexandre Dumas
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
3237 Eric Hoffer
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
3248 Martha Grimes
Before you hate something you should try to understand it.
4928 Edgar Allan Poe
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
1235 Jostein Gaarder
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)
2481 Mustafa Said
The term I despise most is motivation. Motivation is an unreliable tease and isn't worth your time. Motivation is fleeting, DISCIPLINE is reliable. Cultivate DISCIPLINE and FORCE yourself to do things to better yourself. It isn't about keeping yourself motivated, it's about how to train yourself to work without it.
2258 Bob Dylan
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
1102 Pittacus Lore
He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
1757 Marshall McLuhan
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding.
4368 Jack Tempchin
Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.
1402 Confucius
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
4654 Samuel Johnson
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
2856 Amit Ray
Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.
4368 Amit Ray
Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.
4414 Carson McCullers
There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time-the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
3053 Sandra Lake
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.
2180 Diane Goold
Wisdom keeps us from making foolish mistakes.
3869 Johnathan Jena
True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.
1210 Jill Telford
We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.
4892 Bamigboye Olurotimi
The best of your life could be the rest of your life, if you decide it will be so.
2716 Zhuangzi
Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.
4698 Thiruvalluvar
In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.
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