Understanding Quotes

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom, Problem, Desire

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Pablo Picasso

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Education, Wise, Foolish

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung

Help, Evil, Darkness

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhan

Dangerous, Point, View

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May

Community, Intimacy, Mutual

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle

Poor, Matter, Company

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
Richard Dawkins

Feeling, Personal, Evolution

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mind, Heart, Give

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Milton Friedman

Knowledge, Ideas, Values

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
Saint Patrick

Heart, Lord, Sins

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Bertrand Russell

Great, Men, Philosophy

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Douglas MacArthur

Faith, Shall, Based

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka

Die, Wish, Beginning

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
John Denver

Life, Here, Whatever

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde

Emotional, Joy, Between

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus

Learn, Far, Knew

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
Tim Burton

Real, Words, Confused

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh

Time, Same, Master

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. Truman

Government, Political, May

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett

Age, Power, Wisdom

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke

Business, Person, Plan

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody

Faith, Religion, Children

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling

Country, Foreign, Condition

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus

Learning, Teach

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes

Knowledge, Alone, Two

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Times, Greater

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza

Learning, Human, Understand

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Richard Dawkins

Sometimes, Fine, Metaphors

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