Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Understanding - Quotes

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become. - Muhammad Ali

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

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. - Francis Bacon

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. - Francis Bacon

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have. - Heraclitus

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. - Baruch Spinoza

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. - Leonardo da Vinci

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding. - Nicholas Black Elk

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. - Kahlil Gibran

To understand is to perceive patterns. - Isaiah Berlin

Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand. - Kim Harrison

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. - Norman Vincent Peale

Understanding does not necessarily mean agreement. - Unknown

Understanding is a process by which something that is external to us loses its externality and gains access to our inner self. - Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. - J. Michael Straczynski

Understanding is the essence of Love. If you cannot understand you cannot love. - Unknown

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. - J.K. Rowling

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. - Jacob Bronowski

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile. - Henry David Thoreau

What a man does not understand, he does not possess. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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? - Graham Greene

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. - Leonardo Da Vinci

You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. - Guy Finleyv

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. - Harper Lee

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