Quotes of: Greater-understanding Keyword

Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to unders...

Social Theory and Social Structure

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it....

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as ...

Terrorscape

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of...

Immanuel Kant

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; with...

Dee Hock

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in ...

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is very difficult to understand man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able to give an explanation, it may be easier. Even then everything can not be understood. Words have their limitation and comprehension, its li...

Acharya Mahapragya

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Celebration of Discipline

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

Clockwork Prince

There's no greater joy in life than enjoying power without responsibility. - Mukta Prajapati

The Edge of Power

Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.

Green Illusions

There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.

Book of Orion - Liber Aeternus

You can accomplish far greater things when you depend on a divine power.

Beautiful Quotes

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.

Gordon B. Hinckley

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

Martin Filler

If your will to win is greater than fear of failure.. then only you will win.

10 Alone

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

Aizai the Forgotten

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

Knights of the Hill Country

Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

There is no greater path than the act of listening.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life