Quotes of: Greater-understanding Keyword

Authority is essential to society, but what we called in "transcendental" authority, with an executive ruler on top, depends on the ruler's understanding of equity. If he hasn't enough of such understanding, authority becomes a repressive legalism. L...

Northrop Frye

Men in western governments who were themselves are often modern men, did not understand that freedom without chaos is not a magic formula which can be implanted anywhere. Rather, being modern men, it was their view that, because human race had evolve...

Francis A. Schaeffer

In portraiture I look for people that I recognise - 'Look, it's Uncle Tony' - or for the faces of film stars. The Madame Tussaud's school of art appreciation. In realist works I look for detail; 'Look at the eyelashes!' I say, in idiotic admiration a...

David Nicholls

The stories in this book link an ancient story with the children's stories. Rather than medical case reports based on certainty of what scientists currently understand, they are simply an attempt to be faithful to what I have heard. In this sense, th...

Diane M. Komp - Pediatric Oncologist

I write not because I've to, I write because I'm compelled too. I love what I do, I see purpose in the words I write. I see that within myself, there is a way to construct a reality based on my perception of the world. I'm inspired to inspire others ...

Jeremy Limn

Robert Hitchins: You don't understand. If we go back, they'll swamp the boat, they'll pull us right down, I'm tellin' you! Molly Brown: Knock it off. You're scaring me. C'mon girls! Grab an oar, let's go! Robert Hitchins: Are you out of your mind? We...

Titanic

Melanie Daniels: Just what is it you're looking for, sir? Mitch Brenner: Lovebirds. Melanie Daniels: Lovebirds, sir? Mitch Brenner: Yes. I understand there are different varieties. Is that true? Melanie Daniels: Oh yes, there are. Mitch Brenner: Well...

The Birds

Hatred wants to annihilate, but it annihilates by destroying, by making our awareness dull, by suppressing, by dividing. True Nature does not really annihilate, because something is not wiping out something else--there is no duality. The kind of anni...

A.H. Almaas

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

Cat's Cradle

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.

Crush

Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Confessions of a Shopaholic

We have a lot of questions, and we want to understand. Music helps with that . Music helps with everything.

The Day Before

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis

Eldest

Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.

Elites and Masses

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

Emily of New Moon

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

The Fabric of the Cosmos

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

The First and Last Freedom

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

When we understand the mechanism of life then we can cooperate with it and live an abundant life.

God Does Not Play Dice