Top 100 Understanding It Quotes
#1. The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.
Arnold Schoenberg
#2. Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.
Randy Sandke
#3. The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
Charles Spurgeon
#4. Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.
Jerome Bruner
#5. You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
John Ruskin
#6. In perfect understanding, it seemed, they looked at each other. Questions of failure, of haste, all the what if's of life, did not matter. The quiet in her was talking to the quiet in him.
Anne Rice
#7. Art is not about understanding, it's about experience.
Antony Gormley
#8. It's not in searching externally for the peace that passes all understanding; it's in searching from within you.
Alice Hocker
#9. Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.
Molly Haskell
#10. I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.
Queen Latifah
#11. I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.
Anderson Cooper
#12. the studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#13. You got a girl who's worth it ... you spoil her rotten. You let her know she's precious, not convince her of that shit, because it's not about convincing. It's about understanding it's just fuckin' true.
Kristen Ashley
#14. ...and I know he's something more. I guess I'll just have to accept it without understanding it... Maybe that's really the point I was trying to put across.
Madeleine L'Engle
#15. I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.
Rebecca Miller
#16. Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;
Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.
Caleb Ricketts
#17. You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated in children.
Jean Webster
#18. Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.
Henry Kirke White
#19. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.
Joseph Addison
#20. One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.
Giorgio Morandi
#21. Just sitting does not involve reaching some understanding. It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest just as they are, not poking one's head into the workings of the world.
John Daido Loori
#22. They wanted a list of symptoms: dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations. You could not say, it is a different life trying to nudge this one aside. I am meant to be living that different life. Who would understand that, if she could make no better sense of understanding it herself?
Jean Thompson
#23. Lack of understanding seemed as valuable to God as understanding. It required man to dip into the black hole of faith. But dipping into the hole was pretty much like walking through the dungeon at times.
Ted Dekker
#24. The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply.
Marcel Proust
#25. Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
#26. There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
Edmund Morgan
#27. The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind,
the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
George Bernard Shaw
#28. Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.
Jerome Bruner
#29. As soon as something seems the most obvious thing in the world,it means that we have abandoned all attempts to understanding it.
Bertolt Brecht
#30. Why, if those were my images of death, did I remain so unable to accept the fact that he had died? Was it because I was failing to understand it as something that had happened to him? Was it because I was still understanding it as something that had happened to me? Life
Joan Didion
#31. I haven't had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It's somewhat complicated to understand that. I've hardly ever spoken about it. You're in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.
Byron Katie
#32. When we look at the past from beyond the perspective of sadness and error, without judgment, without right or wrong, understanding it was part of our chosen experience, then the past is healed. And by healing I mean that it is seen with wisdom and insight rather than judgment and scorn.
Linda Hoppe
#33. Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
Arthur C. Clarke
#34. Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.
Jane Fonda
#35. The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.
Harvey Diamond
#36. I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.
Daryl Hall
#37. It's a phenomenon that I've often observed without understanding it. Inside someone another person can exist, a fully formed, generous, and trustworthy individual who never comes to light except in glimpses, because he is surrounded by a corrupt, dyed-in-the-wool, repeat offender.
Peter Hoeg
#38. The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.
Mao Zedong
#39. You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn't owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you're going to have to give up your right to understanding. It's called trust.
Bill Johnson
#40. Art is important for it commemorates the seasons of the soul, or a special or tragic event in the soul's journey. Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one's own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us. As
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#41. What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
Jimmy Wales
#42. We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind ... the underworld of the century's imaginings.
Brian Aldiss
#43. Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn't exist.
Martin R. Lemieux
#44. Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
Mitch Albom
#45. You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
#46. Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.
Byron Katie
#47. Dreams carry us back to the earlier stages of human culture and afford us a means of understanding it more clearly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
Ellen Swallow Richards
#49. Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#50. Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#51. I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
Alexander McQueen
#52. For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth.
Malcolm Gladwell
#53. Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. "Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood.
Naomi Wood
#54. If I do start life all over again, I'll do so very cautiously, but will I even start? Caution, understanding, it's all useless. There is weariness, and nothing more.
Emmanuel Bove
#55. Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.
Sheri Dew
#56. But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#57. Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
A. Theodore Tuttle
#58. If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#59. What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#60. But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data
Eleanor Duckworth
#61. the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They
George Orwell
#62. When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.
Stuart J. Russell
#63. Reality didn't come in a sudden burst of understanding; it was a slow dawn.
Alessandra Torre
#64. Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.
Crystal Waters
#65. Enjoying life should be of much greater concern than understanding it.
Will Fetters
#66. I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent
who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter
friend. I do love you, dear Mama.
Julia Quinn
#67. He was unafraid of death, understanding it was only the seamless moment that takes you to somewhere else.
Boston Teran
#68. Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.
Fernand Leger
#69. The only certain way to forge new understanding it to carry out investigations for oneself.
Jane Borodale
#70. Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#71. Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.
Robert Winston
#72. Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#73. The world as it was, is, or will be, is beyond common sense, beyond natural understanding: it must be taught.
Masood Ashraf Raja
#74. Faith springs from understanding. It is a conviction that grows from understanding.
Nancy Freeman Patchen
#75. Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Frank Herbert
#76. We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.
Susie Orbach
#77. You never actually solve a problem. You just become a better person by understanding it in a better way. Then it ceases to be a problem for you.
Debasish Mridha
#78. The great muckraker Upton Sinclair had expressed a deep insight into the relationship between the world of ideas and the world of practical men: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'34
John Kay
#79. Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It's very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.
Arundhati Roy
#80. Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.
Hanif Kureishi
#81. We can not hear or see everything, but a experience let us understanding it.
Jan Jansen
#82. Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.
Immanuel Kant
#83. Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too.
Frank Wilczek
#84. One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
Christopher Nolan
#85. Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.
Michel Foucault
#86. It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
#87. For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren
#88. Palpatine sought power over others. Yoda sought power from within. Palpatine wanted control of everything, in the hopes of building what he thought would be a perfect universe. Yoda gave up the idea of controlling or perfecting the universe, in the hopes of understanding it.
Michael P. Kube-McDowell
#89. The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
Confucius
#90. Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to understanding ourselves. This
Caitlin Doughty
#91. Faith does not come from our understanding. It comes from the heart. We do not believe because we understand; we understand because we believe (see Heb. 11:6). We'll know when our mind is truly renewed, because the impossible will look logical.
Bill Johnson
#92. If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.
James Franco
#93. In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.
Rudolf Steiner
#95. The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.
Tom Peterson
#96. Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.
Frank Herbert
#97. At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.
Jane Wagner
#98. But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons.
S. S. Van Dine
#99. When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
Andre Gide
#100. I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.
Paulo Coelho
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