Understanding Quotes

To create something does not mean to see through to its depths; we do not drain our children to the dregs by begetting them, but set them loose in the world like wild dogs, beyond our control and often beyond our knowledge.

~ Graham Harman

He has to come to it on his own.

~ Justin Cronin

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

~ John Cage

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

~ Martin Cruz Smith

Employees don't need to be best friends, but there does need to be a level of mutual respect and understanding.

~ Kathryn Minshew

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

~ Princess Diana

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

~ Simon Pegg

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

~ Agnes Repplier

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.

~ Ken Burns

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

~ Burt Rutan

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

~ Glenn Beck

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

~ Norman Maclean

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

~ Tony Robbins

Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

~ Lobsang Tenzin

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

~ Douglas Conant

The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

~ Warren Rudman

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

~ Rockwell Kent

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

~ Brian Kernighan

Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

~ Venus Williams

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

~ Frank Ocean

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

~ Francis Bacon

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

~ Jacob Bronowski

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

~ David Gerrold

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.

~ Rudolf Steiner

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

~ Mae Jemison

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

~ Wilhelm Dilthey

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

~ Brian Schmidt

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

~ Henry Taube

The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

~ Michele Bachmann

Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

~ Jose Ferreira

But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.

~ Julius Erving

I can make all the throws. My mental side is a strength as far as understanding defense schemes and our playbook. I'm able to change plays when needed. I think that sets me apart.

~ Carson Wentz

A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.

~ Rudolf Steiner

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

~ Rachel Nichols

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

~ Christopher Fry

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

~ Alicia Keys

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

~ Kathryn Minshew

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.

~ Winifred Holtby

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

~ Matthew Stewart

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

~ Marina Abramović