Understanding Quotes

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.