quotations about understanding
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
SEAMUS HEANEY
This Week Magazine, April 15, 2004
I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.
CHINESE PROVERB
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another.
IMMANUEL KANT
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
BIBLE
Philippians 4:7
If the right path of human understanding is followed, then we will have heaven on earth.
EMANUEL SCHIKANEDER
The Magic Flute
The number of things which you do not understand increases day by day.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
Such understanding is attainable and festive joy is accordingly possible. Such is the character of binah, understanding; intellectual lucidity inspires luminous joy.
ELI RUBIN
"Joy, Understanding, and the Power of Mitzvot", Chabad, April 13, 2017
Do not seek the because -- in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
ANAÏS NIN
Henry and June
We believe tolerance and understanding are intertwined in the path toward human progress.
PETER G. SZILAGYI
"The Road to Tolerance and Understanding", AAP News, May 3, 2017
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
NICHOLAS BLACK ELK
The Sacred Pipe
The circle of our understanding
Is a very restricted area.
T. S. ELIOT
The Family Reunion
To acquire wisdom is to love oneself; people who cherish understanding will prosper.
BIBLE
Proverbs 19:8
What you understand no longer matters.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"Trompe L'oeil"
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
We all feel that religious understanding is crucial in a multiracial country, and the way to achieving that is to practise moderation. Everybody has different ways of thinking. We cannot and should not force others to think like we do, we must respect the differences, understand and accept each other to achieve social harmony.
A. HEMADASA
"Getting set for Wesak", The Star Online, May 8, 2017
I write with the belief that lack of understanding is the source of prejudice.
SIRI GALHENAGE
"Understanding Madness", The Island, April 28, 2017
As with any complex field, much of that first wave of better understanding is recognition of all the things that we don't know.
ANDREW METRICK
"Is Our Financial System Still at Risk?", Yale Insights, April 12, 2017
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 men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Quiet American