Understanding Quotes

Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

~ Adam Davidson

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

~ Mary Catherine Bateson

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

~ Sandra Day O'connor

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

~ Anna Kendrick

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

~ S. J. Rozan

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.

~ David Souter

Much learning does not teach understanding.

~ Heraclitus

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

~ Lester Holt

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

~ Maeve Binchy

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

~ Yo-Yo Ma

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

~ Ruth Reichl

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

~ Richard Dawkins

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

~ Maimonides

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

~ Robert Winston

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

~ Ryszard Kapuściński

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

~ Martin Luther King

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

~ Craig T. Nelson

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

~ Richard Neal

Power is the by-product of understanding.

~ Jacob Bronowski

In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Expressionism or Minimalism is, but you aren't given the chance to appreciate the mind of an artist.

~ Robert J. Fisher

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

~ John Locke

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

~ Saint Bernard

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

~ Milton Friedman

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

~ René Descartes

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

~ Richard P. Feynman

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

~ Willard Libby

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

~ Tony Orlando

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there's a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

~ George Best

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

~ Delta Goodrem

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

~ Barbara Kruger

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

~ Sugata Mitra

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

~ Paul Ryan

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

~ Drew Gilpin Faust

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

~ Frederick W. Smith

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

~ Marian Anderson

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

~ Martin H. Fischer

The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health.

~ Robert Jarvik