Top 1200 Lack Of Understanding Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

I don't agree that there's an over-abundance of a lack of quality.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

Indian film awards lack credibility.

My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.

. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches.

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Many Of Them Have Things -- What They Lack Is The Richness Of Spirit

Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a conscious being. The difference is between being in a certain state and knowing oneself to be in a certain state.

Lack is more in means, than in principles.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith, and thy understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge; understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand; understanding is the wages of a lively faith and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

I never felt like I had a lack of talent.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Pride definitely causes a lack of communication.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

Never make decisions from a place of lack.

Those who rush are the same ones who lack technique.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

I do get flak for the lack of romance in my stories.

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.

I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

If I missed bronze by whisker, it was due to lack of experience.

Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I don't remember, as a child, feeling a lack of anything.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn't the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn't. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look.

Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the occasion for the delusion of pride to arise if we think our understanding is superior to that of everyone else. Pride is harmful because it prevents us from accepting fresh knowledge from a qualified teacher. Just as a pool of water cannot collect on the tip of a mountain, so too a reservoir of understanding cannot be established in a mind falsely elevated by pride.

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

You know, I think my biggest concern [if Mitt is elected], obviously, would just be for his mental well-being. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness and his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy, in his understanding of what's missing right now in the economy - you know, pieces that are missing to get this jump-started. So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. You are already there - you have never been away. You cannot be away from there. God has never been missed. Maybe you have forgotten, that's all. Maybe you have fallen asleep, that's all.

All failures are so because they lack social interest.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life; and without an understanding of our own purpose, there can be no true commitment. Whether that commitment is to marriage, family, study, work, God, relationships, or the simple resolutions of our lives, it will be almost impossible to fulfill without a clear and practical understanding of our purpose. Commitment and purpose go hand in hand.