Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
~ Ambrose Bierce
My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.
~ Tim Allen
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
~ John Searle
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
~ Harry S Truman
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
~ Helen Keller
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
~ Robert Hall
Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
~ Ludwig Quidde
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
~ A. E. Housman
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
~ Frank Herbert
The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
~ Charles Munch
We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
~ Yehuda Berg
A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.
~ Frank Tipler
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.
~ Magdi Yacoub
I love rings, but I can't wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.
~ Justin Tuck
I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.
~ Edward Snowden
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
~ Saul Steinberg
