Understanding Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Understanding
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~ Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government ~

Madame Chiang

~ He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes at its maximum only to the man who has given up golf. ~

P.G. Wodehouse

~ Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future. ~

James Talent

~ There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~

Arnot Sheppard

~ Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ~

Lao-Tzu

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

David Gerrold

~ Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ So peace will come again on Earth but a peace unlike aught known before. Then will the will-to-good flower forth as understanding And understanding blossom as goodwill in men. ~

Alice A. Bailey

~ Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. ~

Louis Gerstner

~ Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. ~

Dorothy Thompson

~ Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices. ~

Robert C. Solomon

~ Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind. ~

David Hume

~ The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. ~

Audre Lorde

~ Through the sands of time . . the written word has changed the course of history, inspired many to fight for their beliefs and most importantly . . . elevated mankind to a higher understanding of mans inhumanity to mankind. ~

David Lawrence Dewey

~ It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ~

Charles Baudelaire

~ It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences. ~

Harry S. Truman

~ The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ~

Leonardo da Vinci

~ Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third ~

Marge Piercy

~ Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third ~

Marge Piercy

~ Understanding is a two-way street. ~

Eleanor Roosevelt

~ To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden. ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ 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

~ A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide." ~

Samuel Butler

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

Princess of Wales Diana

~ The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. ~

Wayne Dyer

~ You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. ~

Guy Finley

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

Martin Luther King Jr

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