Understanding Quotes

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.