Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
James Thurber

With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.
Martin Van Buren

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Tony Blair

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
Xi Zhi

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
John Polkinghorne

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
George Takei

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
Ninon de L'Enclos

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

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
Anne Sullivan

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Walter Lippmann

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
Frank Herbert

Power is the by-product of understanding.
Jacob Bronowski

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

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
Sandra Cisneros

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski