Quotes of: Understanding Keyword

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

Killosophy

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

Rise of the Morningstar

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

The Roots of American Order

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

Ron Carlson Writes a Story

I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.

Rootless

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

Robot Visions

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

Sufi Thought and Action

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

Saying It Like It Is

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Slaughterhouse-Five

No, this isn't right. I don't think the people doing it know or care about right and wrong. This is all some kind of show, but I don't understand it either.

Selection

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

Sons and Lovers

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Miles to Go

Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Milkweed

Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.

Master of Stupidity

to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

Oh, do you understand what I mean? Have you ever felt that about the Moon? Have you ever ached with the sheer beauty of it?

Naked on the Moon

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.

Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading

You don't understand the things I do, but I do have my reasons. They're not your reasons, so they're not real to you, but they're real to me, and that's enough.

Nuts