Understanding Quotes - page 3

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone. View quote
Gerald Ford
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. View quote
Errol Morris
Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. View quote
Laozi
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. View quote
Chin-Ning Chu
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. View quote
Alva Myrdal
In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. (K. Eric Drexler)
I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. View quote
Diane Arbus
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavour toward better understanding. View quote
Marc Bloch
Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here. Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until the next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement, and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences. View quote
John Denver
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. View quote
James Thurber
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. (Graham Greene)
Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings. View quote
Haruki Murakami
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. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. View quote
Karel Čapek
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. View quote
Georges Rouault
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