Understanding Quotes

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

~ Abigail Adams

Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.

~ Auliq Ice

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

~ Criss Jami

It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

~ Daniel Suarez

Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak. Love isn’t enough; there must also be understanding.

~ Elsie Lincoln Benedict

Cognition begins with sensation.

~ Richard Tarnas

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

~ Edwin Muir

if only you could see through my eyes at the life that I've lived and if only you could think through my thoughts & hear every word that was said and seen and how it made me feel as all of those words were forced down my ears and stabbed in my chest were my heart used to be.. then and only then would you know why I hide myself so deep in the dark parts of the abyss that became my home and its the place where I can go where my heart is safe from a world that didn't care if my feelings were hurt or if they loved me for what I'm not or tried to kill me for not being their carbon copy illusion of what they thought was normal and if only you walked along side of me through it all then you would understand my choices & not hate my mistakes.

~ John Speigle

She was lost in her longing to understand.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

She’s an absolute idiot!” she added with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

~ Marcel Proust

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

~ Ben Okri

The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in great tension, he's about as complex as a shape-shifter; or a head with faces on all sides, but not necessarily in the negative connotation as one being two-faced usually implies. For instance, to be misunderstood can mean to be improperly deemed a troublemaker when that is not one's true intent: you see, to troublemakers, the artist knows that the peacemaker may seem like a troublemaker; therefore he may, whether in honesty or in jest, at times, present himself as a troublemaker for perceptual, artistic flair. But then to the artless peacemakers, because of this they will interpret him as a troublemaker. This is why the artist has so few allies. To the troublemakers he's a troublemaker, yet still the peacemakers a troublemaker.

~ Criss Jami

Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.

~ Astronaut Ron Garan

At the limit it could be said that every speaking being has a personal language of his own, that is his own particular way of thinking and feeling. Culture, at its various levels, unifies in a series of strata, to the extent that they come into contact with each other, a greater or lesser number of individuals who understand each other's mode of expression to varying degrees, etc.

~ Antonio Gramsci

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

~ Criss Jami

Your commitment is to action alone, not to the fruits of action. That must never be: you must not be motivated by the fruits of your actions. Yet you must not become attached to inaction. Perform your duties as a warrior and cast off attachment, Arjuna, indifferent alike whether you gain or gain not. This indifference is called yoga. Action is far lower than the rule of understanding, Arjuna. Seek refuge in wisdom. They are unworthy who are moved only by gain. Lesson Two, verses 47-49

~ Bhagvad Gita

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

~ Tennessee Williams

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

~ Raheel Farooq

A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger, focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at!

~ Choa Kok Sui

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.

~ Criss Jami

Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.

~ John Mark Reynolds

There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don’t lose your temper and don’t get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Would you like the rhythm of your heart to be calm?Would you like the music of your soul towards harmony and fulfillment?Deal with any conflict constructively to reduce stress, tension and other unwanted collateral effects. Sharing you strategies on how to deal with a conflict:- take care of yourself and know well yourself- clarify what personal needs threatened by the conflict- identify a safe place and appropriate time for negotiation- seek first to understand than be understood, listening skills is very important.

~ 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.

~ Angelica Hopes

Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.

~ Raheel Farooq

I consoled myself with Granddaddy's words on the fossil record and the Book of Genesis: It was more important to understand something than to like it. Liking wasn't necessary for understanding. Liking didn't enter into it.

~ Kelly Jacqueline

One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.

~ Marcel Proust

Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.

~ Criss Jami

You can not rise above your understanding, yet our understanding largely stems from the quality and quantity of knowledge we have been privileged to acquire.

~ Paul Bamikole

People fear what they do not understand.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding. Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments!

~ D.h. Lawrence

Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will percieve the divine mystery in things. Once you percieve it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

~ Nathanael West

Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency

~ ;Frederick Douglass

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it, too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

~ Malcolm Bradbury

He who becomes his most truthful self, becomes the leader for everyone else.

~ Nikki Rowe