Understanding Quotes

The Maestro spoke again. When we are not, at what point do we become? I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.

~ Theresa Breslin

Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.

~ Duane Elmer

Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.

~ Carl Sagan

grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in my poem In a BishopsWood Clearing

~ Jay Woodman

Knowing me better than I think anyone shouldExcept, perhapsNo, probablyNo, definitelyDefinitely except you

~ Thalia Circe

The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.From time to time, sit close to the one you love, hold his or her hand, and ask, 'Darling, do I understand you enough? Or am I making you suffer? Please tell me so that I can learn to love you properly. I don't want to make you suffer, and if I do so because of my ignorance, please tell me so that I can love you better, so that you can be happy. If you say this in a voice that communicates your real openness to understand, the other person may cry.That is a good sign, because it means the door of understanding is opening and everything will be possible again. Maybe a father does not have time or is not brave enough to ask his son such a question. Then the love between them will not be as full as it could be. We need courage to ask these questions, but if we don't ask, the more we love, the more we may destroy the people we are trying to love. True love needs understanding. With understanding, the one we love will certainly flower.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

~ H. James Harrington

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.

~ Charles M. Blow

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I believe I can achieve something in my life.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom.

~ Marty Rubin

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

~ Philip Yancey

I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking that medicine is more closely aligned to the humanities than to the sciences. I can't help thinking that I could learn more about being a good doctor from William Shakespeare than I could from Isaac Newton. After all, isn't understanding people at least as important as understanding pathology?

~ Michael J. Collins

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

~ Peter Høeg

And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand.

~ Oscar Wilde

Humor is not an end in itself, but a tool to understanding. A dense head must be tickled with an ax.

~ Bauvard

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

~ Richard Paul Evans

The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You'll never know the the outcome unless you just go out there and just do it.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

~ Idries Shah

He was no lover in a worldly sense; the only love he knew was that of divine understanding, of taking a whole life into its depths as if they were his own. From this, the greatest pain, the greatest happiness is born: the hope that we too will one day be understood, strangers will accept our words, our lives, as if they were their own.

~ Dezső Kosztolányi

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

~ Idries Shah

People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.

~ Idries Shah

And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for 'the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond the sphere of logic, subtle, and to be understood by the wise'. The reason for this is that it is not readily comprehended by one who holds a different view and has different learnings and inclinations, different involvements and instruction. It is clear from this statement that the conception of nibbāna in beyond logical reasoning, not because it is an Ultimate Reality transcending logic, but because logic or reason, being the 'slave of passions', makes it difficult for one who has a passion for an alien tradition to understand the conception of nibbāna.

~ David J. Kalupahana

The key to understanding the answer to any questions about guidance is having a clear grasp of what is three-dimensional.

~ Elaine Seiler

Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together.

~ Andrés Neuman

Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

~ Helen Rowland

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.

~ William Golding

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

~ Roland Barthes

I think, actually, that none of us understands anyone else very well, because we're all too shy to show what matters the most. If you ask me, it's a major design flaw. We ought to be able to say, Here, look what I am. I think it would be quite a relief.

~ Elizabeth Berg

Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis

~ Christopher Paolini

Tread the path one has walked, before stoning them!

~ Deeba Salim Irfan

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. However, just because you know and understand the nature of something or someone, does not mean that you will come to terms.

~ Lionel Suggs

I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis of Cerion's general pattern required that two predictions be affirmed (or else we were in trouble): this population must disappear by hybridization with mottled shells toward bank-interior coasts and with ribby snails toward the bank-edge. We hiked west toward the bank-interior and easily found hybrids right on the verge of the airport road. We then moved east toward the bank-edge along a disused road with vegetation rising to five feet in the center between the tire paths. We should have found our hybrids but we did not. The Cerion agassizi simply stopped about two hundred yards north of our first ribby Cerion. Then we realized that a pond lay just to our east and that ribby forms, with their coastal preferences, might not favor the western side of the pond. We forded the pond and found a classic hybrid zone between Cerion agassizi and ribby Cerions. (Ribby Cerion had just managed to round the south end of the pond, but had not moved sufficiently north along the west side to establish contact with C. agassizi populations.) I wanted to shout for joy. Then I thought, But who can I tell; who cares? And I answered myself, I don't have to tell anyone. We have just seen and understood something that no one has ever seen and understood before. What more does a man need?

~ Stephen Jay Gould

Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence.There is much I don't unders

~ John Barnes

That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?

~ Kaye Gibbons

Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.

~ Kathryn Erskine

i need someonewho knows struggleas well as i dosomeonewilling to hold my feet in their lapon days it is too difficult to standthe type of person who givesexactly what i needbefore i even know i need itthe type of lover who hears meeven when i do not speakis the type of understandingi demand- the type of lover i need

~ Rupi Kaur