Understanding Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Understanding
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~ Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ 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

~ It is not long since man thought of himself as the center of the universe, thought even of the Sun - the very source of all our life - as a light by day revolving about the Earth. As our new understanding has come - through science - science also has brought us many other new and wonderful discoveries, and the new knowledge of what we are has been overlooked by many of us in our eagerness for the new knowledge of what we can do. We have become as proud over what we can do as ever our ancestors could have been over themselves as the center of the universe. We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. Without the gagets, the inventions, the contrivances whereby men have seemed to establish among themselves an independence of nature, without these distractions, to know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize oneís littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness, and responsibility. Perhaps, indeed, this is the distinctive ministration of wilderness to modern man, the characteristic effect of an area which we most deeply need to provide for in our preservation programs. ~

Howard Zahniser

~ A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. ~

George Savile

~ Among the propensities of human nature which almost exceed understanding come the parsimony of the rich and the extravagance of the poor. ~

Unknown

~ Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

~ Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. ~

Harold Evans

~ Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. ~

Xi Zhi

~ If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old dictum that everything is identical with itself becomes in [todays understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts. ~

Alfred Korzybski

~ Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ The path to god is the path of righteousness. While its true no one is righteous, you can try to walk the path. That simply means doing whats right but its tricky since you cant consider yourself righteous without being self-righteous. You would have to do it for other people and/or God. In order to know what the right thing to do is, you will also have to gain wisdom. Wisdom is gained by understanding. Its a more difficult path then it seems and mine has unfortunately been blocked by darkness. Good luck. ~

James Dye

~ It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation. ~

Bertolt Brecht

~ Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

~ Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals. ~

Robert M. Hutchins

~ A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals. ~

Robert M. Hutchins

~ All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. ~

Felix Frankfurter

~ Advertising is a ten billion dollar a year misunderstanding with the public. ~

Chester L. Posey

~ It gives us a very, very bad name, not just internationally. I have a great deal of difficulty understanding how we can hold someone, pick someone up, particularly someone who might be an American citizen--even if they were caught somewhere abroad--acting against American interests, and hold them without ever giving them an opportunity to appear before a magistrate. ~

James A. Baker III

~ I don't let go of concepts - I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me. ~

Byron Katie

~ Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration - and get between you and it. ~

Arthur Bridges

~ Empathy is the lovefire of sweet remembrance and shared understanding. ~

John Eaton

~ Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding ~

Lord Chesterfield

~ I am trying to save the knowledge that the forests and this planet are alive, to give it back to you who have lost the understanding. ~

Paulinho Paiakan

~ The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality. ~

Sir Eric Ashby

~ understanding does not necessarily mean agreement. ~

Unknown

~ The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ~

John Steinbeck

~ Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect. ~

Charles Horton Cooley

~ The fact that you have two people both wanting to do the same thing provides the tension in the show. The understanding of the reasons that each one wants to get in there first provides the resolution to the show. It's an emotional rollercoaster ride. ~

Don Sargent

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