Understanding Quotes

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

~ Maya Angelou

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

~ Rudyard Kipling

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.

~ John Updike

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

~ Ang Lee

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.

~ Emily Browning

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

~ Phil Klay

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

~ Martin Luther

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

~ William Wilberforce

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

~ Douglas Macarthur

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

~ Marquis De Sade

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

~ Mitch Kapor

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

~ Drew Endy

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

~ Jesse James Garrett

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

~ Ali Larter

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.

~ Charles Kennedy

Our - our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons.

~ Ben Carson

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

~ Li Peng

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

~ Steven Brust

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

~ Xenophon

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

~ Isaac Newton

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

~ Marcus Aurelius

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

~ Salman Rushdie

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

~ Buzz Aldrin

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

~ Thomas Carlyle

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

~ Wynton Marsalis

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

~ David Rockefeller

Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

~ Nate Mendel

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

~ Robert Hall

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

~ Donald Trump

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

~ Pratibha Patil

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

~ J. Donald Walters

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it.

~ Alice Walker

I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, 'Go to the races.' I think it's the best place to start understanding the Irish.

~ Frank Mccourt

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

~ Jim Breyer

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

~ Samuel J. Palmisano

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

~ Harry S Truman

It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.

~ Kimora Lee Simmons

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

~ Margaret Spellings

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

~ Amanda Lindhout