Understanding Quotes

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

~ Billy Sunday

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

~ Iris Johansen

It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert, a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position.

~ Criss Jami

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

~ Jane Austen

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

~ John Knowles

Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.

~ James L. Halperin

...unlike knowledge, understanding cannot be taught. It must be achieved.

~ Dave Donovan

and afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to... I don't know.... explode, and it was just too much, I had to let it out you know? I had to-I interrupted her hysteria It's okay, I understand.That was a lie. I didn't get her cutting at all. She'd done it sporadically, ever since the accident and it scared me each time. She'd try to explain it to me, how she didn't want to die - she just needed to get it out somehow. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.

~ Richelle Mead

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

~ Immanuel Kant

Nobody can define what exactly true love is. Some believe in it and many others don't. If somebody tries to define it, there will be many agreements and disagreements. Especially since nowadays marriages don't even last long anymore which encourages many to stay single. Faith and understanding in relationships is what many lack because it seems we've forgotten nothing and no one is perfect.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?

~ Shirley Jackson

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

~ John Dufresne

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.

~ Roland Barthes

Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.

~ Rosie Thomas

I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

~ Rachel Hartman

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

~ Lisa Alther

cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and

~ Confucius

For throughout history, the synthesizing impulse has proved a powerful even world-changing, tool for understanding the universe, capable of penetrating the intricate,contradictory web of surface phenomena to reveal the universal,unified cosmos beneath--that fundamental,unchanging phenomenon we call truth.

~ Gerard Helferich

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.

~ Patrick Wilson

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.

~ Gene Wolfe

Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.

~ Diet Eman

Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.

~ Michael W. Fox

I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.

~ Thurman P. Banks Jr.

The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible, towards an unknown goal! To act and think are opposites which identify one only in the Absolute. To accomplish all one's movements – of the head, the arms, the legs – without ever quite attaining the status of a puppet, but with a certainty that gives one a feeling of rightness: that is what is nowadays held up as the ideal. Be citizens of Universal activity! Forget to be conscious of ourselves! The blind horse gallops without hesitation, not knowing where it is going, not caring where it has been: so let up put out our eyes!

~ Rémy De Gourmont

You couldn't stand to see what terrifies warlords.

~ Toba Beta

It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.

~ Mickey Zucker Reichert

I understand you is the soul behind I Love You. If this is missing, I Love You is empty.

~ Drishti Bablani

My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Not until you change your lens, true beauty shall always look ugly to you!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Open all closed minds with the key to understanding.

~ Jeffrey G. Duarte

A better understanding is a good factor in all things for it gives good reasons for good actions, but to come to a certain understanding, you need to get a certain understanding!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.

~ Elizabeth Wein

Every heartbeat a syllable for words I can’t speak, to explain what I want from him. What I want from myself. To know and be known, totally and completely. To be someone worth knowing.

~ Ryan Galloway

We can't always know why things happen the way they happen, or why a person makes the choices they do. Knowing why isn't necessary to move forward, unless we make it so.You may never find out why. Don’t let that keep you from moving on with your life.

~ Scott Stabile

Love doesn't pity, nor does it resent. Love understands that, no matter our circumstances, we are all equal. We are all the same. We are all worthy of Love.Some have it harder than you. Some have it easier than you. Love them equally.

~ Scott Stabile

The journey of life demands diligence; walk in diligence in your entire life endeavors, and don’t let your energy just go anywhere at all. Price yourself well! Price your energy well! Price your attention well! Price your time well! Prioritize your moments well! Be humble enough to understand the meaning of life and don't let excessive pride be your lens. Be assertive enough to know what to kowtow to and what never to give your time, attention, energy and emotions to. You were born great; be great!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequisite of my understanding of human events, is the way I begin work. Just as, of course, it was an initial step when, in my first journalism job, I stumbled into making pictures with a camera. Frame, proportion, perspective, the values of light and shade; all are determined by the distance of the observing eye.

~ Eudora Welty

Their love was thus seeded in the rich soil of mutual understanding.

~ Jacqueline Winspear

I get a letter once a week from my mama. She say everything fine at home.. I write her back too, when I can, but what I'm gonna tell her that won't start her bawling again? So I just say we is having a nice time and everybody treating us fine.

~ Winston Groom

There is always another layer of awareness, understanding, and delight to be discovered through synchronistic and serendipitous events.

~ Hannelie Venucia