Understanding Quotes

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.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

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

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

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.