True Understanding Quotes

#1. True listening and understanding occurs only when the other person understands that you understand.

Henry Cloud

#2. When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

Stephen Kanner

#3. True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.

Hugh Prather

#4. There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

Miyamoto Musashi

#5. Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

Mark Salzman

#6. If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Criss Jami

#7. Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavour to move the affections and warm the heart.

George Whitefield

#8. In understanding and developing your true identity, you can stand on solid ground because you are a person of God's unique creation

Sunday Adelaja

#9. I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things.

Carly Simon

#10. The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will.

Bartolome De Las Casas

#11. Doormats. It was true that actors had a perception, an understanding of human motive, that normal people lacked. It had nothing to do with intelligence, and very little to do with education.

Josephine Tey

#12. We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

Richard Dreyfuss

#13. We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state.

Ian Gardner

#14. The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.

Viktor Schauberger

#15. Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

Donald A. Norman

#16. True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment,

Owen Barfield

#17. True friends never turn you away when all you need is someone to talk to. Ever. It's not the only thing that helps, but it's the only thing that works. Real friends never walk away, letting you slip deeper into the pit of despair.

Northern Adams

#18. Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

Sebastian Coe

#19. True Faith steps in when understanding takes a hike! Lean not on your own understanding! EL

Evinda Lepins

#20. Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.

Meher Baba

#21. Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

Joel Coen

#22. The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.

Hugo Chavez

#23. In fact, "father" and "mother" are two aspects of the same reality. Father is more expressive side of wisdom or understanding, and mother the side of love or compassion...Without understanding there cannot be true love, and without love there cannot be understanding,

Thich Nhat Hanh

#24. The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams.

Samael Aun Weor

#25. After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn in theory only.

Koichi Tohei

#26. It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.' John Horgan.

Ronald Graham

#27. It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

Swami Muktananda

#28. Mercy and truth are met together', and if I can think of mercy only at the expense of truth and law, it is not true mercy, it is a false understanding of the term.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#29. Yep, there's special eyes that only Jesus can give. When people have special eyes, they can see past a person's face and show other people love.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#30. We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

Dalai Lama

#31. Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

Voltaire

#32. But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.

Banana Yoshimoto

#33. Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind - isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?

Plato

#34. True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

Albert Einstein

#35. I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.

Thomas Wolfe

#36. With God's help in the grasp of addiction you'll find the truth. When we understand this and its purity, then true healing can begin.

Ron Baratono

#37. She remembered Fiona saying something once, there was nothing more attractive than a competent man. At the time she'd been a young girl, without true understanding, but now she agreed.

Lily Blackwood

#38. And yet we didn't believe it now that it was, and not because we really didn't believe it but because we no longer wanted it to be true, we had ended up not understanding what would become of us without him, what would become of our lives after him,

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#39. Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#40. true giving lies not in receiving but in giving

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#41. There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#42. It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

William Godwin

#43. Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.

Bilal Tanweer

#44. Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

James Rachels

#45. People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

R.C. Sproul

#46. Through the mind and judgment,
it is not possible to understand
oneself and others.
True understanding is
a compassionate heart.

Human Angels

#47. In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with the concepts on which we've traditionally based physical theory.

David Gross

#48. We live someone else's life without trying to understand and become what we are really designed to be

Sunday Adelaja

#49. Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate this planet ... When we lose stories, our understanding of the world is less rich, less true.

Susan J. Tweit

#50. Understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

Malcolm Gladwell

#51. [Some scientific] experiments ... tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality ... ... ... true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.

Larry Dossey

#52. Discover and understand the true essence of time so as to know how best to utilize and effectively manage it

Sunday Adelaja

#53. Indeed, insight is the true hallmark of empathy. The power of true empathy is its ability to give us a fresh understanding of the other person's emotions and thoughts to illuminate an aspect of their experience that would not have been apparent to us had we not stepped into their shoes.

Guy Winch

#54. I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.

Moby

#55. The true understanding of life and its purposes comes from an understanding of consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

#56. If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

Marvin J. Ashton

#57. If something were to happen that went against our current understanding of reality, scientists would see that as a challenge to our present model, requiring us to abandon or at least change it. It is through such adjustments and subsequent testing that we approach closer and closer to what is true.

Richard Dawkins

#58. Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

Peter Drucker

#59. The focus on our destiny and understanding our true self keeps us from not giving up

Sunday Adelaja

#60. It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#61. True life is the understanding and support of other people, of selflessness, of charity, of kindness.

Peter F. Hamilton

#62. Stop wasting so much energy hating your body; it makes you weaker. Everything good in your life begins from the moment you begin accepting, understanding, respecting, and loving your true self.

Harry Papas

#63. Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is.

Ryan Allis

#64. Shiva and Saleem, victor and victim; understand our rivalry, and you will gain understanding of the age in which you live. (The reverse of this statement is also true.)

Salman Rushdie

#65. I like to believe a true fan of music or an artist has a genuine respect for what the artist does and has a distinct understanding of their actions. In that buying an album they are helping the artist to continue making music. It's hard because everyone wants something to be free.

Ben Howard

#66. True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.

Johnathan Jena

#67. These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

Gish Jen

#68. Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

Dean Ornish

#69. The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you "make" the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.

Shannon L. Alder

#70. What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices.

Richard A. Falk

#71. Love is not merely need alone, & what is more important is loving you, & making my true nature comprehensible to you.

Qiu Miaojin

#72. The true religion of Jesus Christ our Saviour is that which penetrates, and which receives all the warmth of the heart, and all the elevation of the soul, and all the energies of the understanding, and all the strength of the will.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#73. You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.

Ted Dekker

#74. Lord Jesus, Your love is beyond my understanding but I believe it's true. Right now I offer You my shame, the filthy rags of my past. I choose to step out of this storm of condemnation and into Your peace. Thank You for loving me and for making me worthy, In Your great name, amen.

Sheila Walsh

#75. But perhaps understanding didn't matter as much as I imagined. Perhaps that was the true definition of faith.

Anne Mateer

#76. I am proud to say to you that, I am a scientist and I accept all religions to be biologically true and equal. My pursuit of understanding the human mind has taught me universal tolerance.

Abhijit Naskar

#77. It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

Dan Pallotta

#78. There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.

Walter Raleigh

#79. The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.

David F. Swensen

#80. Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.

Sharon Salzberg

#81. "Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.

David Mamet

#82. Science has its place in man's search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the true poetic intellect can end this long-established dualism.

Edgar Allan Poe

#83. Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.
Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.

Cressida Cowell

#84. When you are told that science has disproved the Bible, ask specifically where such is the case. True science and a true understanding of the Bible are never at variance.

Billy Graham

#85. The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings

M.F. Moonzajer

#86. True learning happens when books and friends, writing and understanding intermingle in a rich soup of participation.

R. David Lankes

#87. How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#88. Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which worldview is true.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#89. The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.

Neale Donald Walsch

#90. Don't worry if you're having a hard time following this oversimplified explanation of physics' most challenging problem. For most of us, understanding special relativity is a little like true love: We should consider ourselves lucky if we can grasp hold of it for even one fleeting moment.

Seth Mnookin

#91. The true understanding of our own depravity isn't a punishment - it's an opportunity to understand the value of the gift.

Angie Smith

#92. True depth of understanding is wide and steady,
Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering,
Words of wisdom are precise and clear

Zhuangzi

#93. True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Voltaire

#94. Because it's not true that suffering purifies people; that we become better, wiser, more understanding in the process. We become cold and indifferent. When, for the first time in our lives, we properly understand our fate, we become almost calm. Calm and extraordinarily, terrifyingly lonely.

Sandor Marai

#95. I think if you let go of preconceived ideas, you'll find everything in this life. For me, my understanding is God is all that is, God is everything, all that is, and your true God is within, and that's the power that you have as a human being.

Jon Anderson

#96. Ask a man enough questions, and his belief in his understanding fades before him as does a dream upon waking - unless it is a true understanding.

Ki Longfellow

#97. Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

Philip Yancey

#98. What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.

Matsuo Basho

#99. We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true to ourselves.

Barbara Becker Holstein

#100. It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid - if we're talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding of the external reality.

Carl Sagan