Quotes of: Understanding Keyword

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

Glenn T. Seaborg

Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

Ha-Joon Chang

no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

Hari Kunzru

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

Harry Mathews

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

Harvey Mackay

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

Henning Mankell

I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am.

James McCartney

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

Joe Mantegna

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

John Podhoretz

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

John Polkinghorne

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

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.

Jimmy Swaggart

I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.

John Shelby Spong

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

Jose Saramago

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

Jules Verne

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

David Frum

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

Dave Hickey

Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.

Dustin Hoffman