Top 1200 Thorough Understanding Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election. If you cannot yet prove it, set upon a present and thorough turning. Whatever purposes be, which are secret, I am sure His promises are plain. How desperately do rebels argue! "If I am elected I shall be saved, do what I will. If not, I shall be damned, do what I can." Perverse sinner, will you begin where you should end?

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

I'm of a generation of director that came up understanding special effects.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Letting go isn't giving up. It's understanding that the best is yet to come.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

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

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.

Cross-cultural reality testing forces people to examine both their own and others' understandings of reality. Most people simply assume that the way they look at things is the way things really are, and judge other cultures' views of reality before understanding them. These judgments are based on ethnocentrism, which closes the door to further understanding and communication. Furthermore, ethnocentric judgments keep missionaries from examining their own beliefs and values to determine which of them are based on biblical foundations and which on their cultural beliefs.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding.

The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others.

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only You Know. Only a thorough initiate of the scene who also had some genius with language could summon the demotic yet electric voice for the job. If there is ruefulness, now, for the way he treated his body, his girlfriends, and his family, he wisely reprises in his book, in neon detail, the fever that once placed him in the same drunken boat with Iggy Pop, Rimbaud and Artaud.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.