Quotes and Sayings About Understanding

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
-- A. E. Housman

#Perfect #Poetry #Understanding

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
-- A. E. Housman

#Perfect #Understanding #Sometimes

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
-- A. H. Almaas

#Careers #Understanding #Important

We are not separate. Our sense of separateness is superficial and exist only in the physical dimension. In our human element, we are not separate; we’re very much connected. Every other human being is just as precious as we are, and worthy of as much respect and love and consideration. This understanding needs to manifest in our conduct in each moment. This is the part of the Work that will transform you.
-- A. H. Almaas

#Understanding #Dimensions #And Love

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle

#Understanding #Fatherhood #Action

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
-- Aaron Huey

#Real #Thinking #Understanding

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
-- Aaron Swartz

#Real #Understanding #Facts

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
-- Aaron Swartz

#Humility #Understanding #Quality

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Cat #Understanding

Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Views #Issues #Understanding

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak

#Wisdom #Islamic #Understanding

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim

#Self #Space #Understanding

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Lying #Understanding #Wonder

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Future #Understanding #Vision

I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Struggle #Effort #Understanding

Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."
-- Adyashanti

#Compassion #Self #Understanding

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Fun #Justice #Understanding

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
-- Aga Khan IV

#Understanding #Tolerance #Survival

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

#Heart #Understanding #Mind

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
-- Agnes Repplier

#People #Understanding #Pins

Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here.
-- Aimee Friedman

#Understanding #Want #Find Me

Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Reflection #Mirrors #Understanding

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Understanding #Mind #Suffering

Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Meditation #Understanding #Listening

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
-- Akio Morita

#People #Understanding #Machines

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
-- Al Franken

#Mean #Understanding #Attention

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
-- Al Gore

#Understanding #Human Nature #Optimist

The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of an inner crisis that is, for lack of a better word, spiritual... what other word describes the collection of values and assumptions that determine our basic understanding of how we fit into the universe?
-- Al Gore

#Spiritual #Roots #Understanding

USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.
-- Al Neuharth

#Usa #Understanding #Unity

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
-- Alain de Botton

#Views #Luxury #Understanding