Understanding Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Understanding
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~ Peace comes with trust, which will grow from continuing efforts toward mutual understanding and trade, Romeo-and-Juliet-style marriages, conversations,negotiations, and individual commitments. ~

Robert C. Solomon

~ A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities. ~

Tenzin Gyatso

~ In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives ~

Francis Bacon

~ Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love. ~

Honor de Balzac

~ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

~ A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. ~

Proverbs

~ Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~

Carl Gustav Jung

~ Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. ~

Joanne Kathleen Rowling

~ There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it ~

Charles F. Kettering

~ It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ~

Upton Sinclair

~ The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ~

Leonardo da Vinci

~ 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

~ The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line ~

Joanna Field

~ Some of the scientists, I believe, haven’t they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There’s a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it’s best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what’s taking place. ~

George W. Bush

~ History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. ~

Robert Penn Warren

~ But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. ~

Marc Bloch

~ [History is a] costly and superfluous luxury of the understanding. ~

Nietzsche

~ Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. ~

William Arthur Ward

~ The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ~

Albert Camus

~ In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. ~

Bill Gates

~ Language is the source of misunderstandings. ~

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

~ Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes. ~

Guy Finley

~ We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves. ~

Walter Lippmann

~ Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding ~

George Savile

~ We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity. ~

Kofi Annan

~ Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect. ~

Father Dominique Pire

~ Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding..... ~

Plato

~ A clear understanding of a negative emotion dismisses it . ~

Vernon Howard

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