Quotes of: Understand Keyword

Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other...

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why m...

The Quiet American

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing ...

Rachel Carson

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know wh...

Kevin DeYoung

Charlie: Does Raymond know how much money he's inherited? Dr. Bruner: No, he doesn't understand the concept of money. Charlie: He doesn't understand the concept of money? He just inherited $3,000,000 and he doesn't understand the concept of money? Wo...

Rain Man

Doyle: Believe in the Bible, do ya Karl? Karl: I don't understand all of it, but I reckon I understand a good deal of it. Doyle: Well I can't understand none of it. This one begat that one and that one begat this one, and lo and behold someone says s...

Sling Blade

At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.

Coma House

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

John Rhys-Davies

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

...There's a lot I don't understand...but not understanding is better not believing" - Ambrose

Making Faces

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

Leaves of Grass

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Paul Cezanne

Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand.

Rob Liano

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

Scott Walker

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Thomas Sowell

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If you see a strange thing, try to understand it! If you can understand it, nothing strange will remain!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.

Rooney Mara

You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive.

Shannon L. Alder

You can't understand where you should be going until you understand what you were created to be.

Norma Gail