Top 100 Understanding Of Life Quotes
#1. This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.
Pope Benedict XVI
#2. Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.
Fritjof Capra
#3. Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
Jet Li
#4. Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.
Leo Tolstoy
#6. Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
Anthony Powell
#7. Seek to engage yourself in passionate reading.
You will gain better understanding of life .
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.
David Cronenberg
#9. To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness.
Jiulio Consiglio
#10. As your understanding of life continues to grow, you can walk upon this planet safe and secure, always moving forward toward your greater good.
Louise Hay
#11. Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.
Lisette Model
#12. A rich and mature life involves opening up to a wider world. If we base our understanding of life only on what we personally experience, we are impoverished indeed.
Robert Strayer
#13. Embedded from dots and darkness everything in the universe is tangled, twisted and formed. The colors we see are creation of consciousness with light and profound/deep understanding of life. The more we are awake, the more we integrate within the universe.
Katia M.S.
Katia M. S.
#15. Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
Francis Crick
#16. The true understanding of life and its purposes comes from an understanding of consciousness.
Debasish Mridha
#17. These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.
Gish Jen
#18. Improve your being, and the understanding of life will come to you; and then with the understanding, do, be or achieve whatever you want out of your life.
Roshan Sharma
#19. Daily Bible reading and mediation will deepen your understanding of life and God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.
Leslie T. Chang
#21. Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
Mo Yan
#22. The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it
to realize it to the full
to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#23. But it is Tolstoy's understanding of life that the fate of each man and woman is determined by forces beyond their control; these forces include the dictatorship of social demands.
Leo Tolstoy
#24. The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
John Dewey
#25. We become happier by advancing our understanding of life and by finding its endless beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#26. I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.
David Cronenberg
#27. We cannot explain life by scientific means only because life is both a miracle and a phenomenon . Wonder and admiration are the highest forms of our understanding of life .
Alija Izetbegovic
#28. Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
Alan Dean Foster
#29. Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.
Albert Einstein
#30. The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
Andre Maurois
#31. When you challenge the social conditioning as well as your own understanding of life, you experience liberation. Adopting path of liberation leads to the success. Success blossoms your spirituality as it strengthens the connection with divinity.
Vishwas Chavan
#32. Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
Henry Miller
#34. Unk had no way of judging the quality of the information contained in the letter. He accepted it all hungrily, uncritically. And, in accepting it, Unk gained an understanding of life that was identical with the writer's understanding of life. Unk wolfed down a philosophy.
Kurt Vonnegut
#35. At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
Orhan Pamuk
#36. The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.
Julian Barnes
#37. As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.
Sharon Stone
#38. But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?
Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed.
Ellen Ullman
#39. He that willeth to do shall know what he ought to do. He that doeth the thing he does know will know more. And that more done will open the door yet wider into all the fragrance of a strongly obedient life, and into a clear and clearing understanding of the Lord Jesus Himself.
S.D. Gordon
#40. The 'absurdities' of life can either turn you into a 'philosopher' or a 'humorist'..
Both 'opposing' poles of the same scale, a matter of understanding..
Ideal, if we can slide down the scale this way and that...
Read somewhere..Philosophers get heard, Humorists get paid..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#41. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.
Debasish Mridha
#42. There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.
Thalia
#43. You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
Bruce Springsteen
#44. The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson
#45. Because of the inherent challenges of life on the earth, all of humanity is vulnerable. This is all the more reason to seek the kingdom of heaven within and find the peace that leads to understanding.
Mike Love
#46. God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
Rumi
#47. She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.
Dean Koontz
#48. The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to ... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
Paulo Coelho
#49. She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived, for life, of any understanding or taste for the main current of poetry that flows through things, all things.
J.D. Salinger
#50. Every death of those you love is the death also of so many shared memories and understanding, of a now irretrievable part of your own life.
Richard Flanagan
#51. Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.
Joshua Romqn
#52. There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.
A.C. Grayling
#53. We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.
Susie Orbach
#54. Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you.
J.I. Packer
#55. My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder.
Teddy Thompson
#56. Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.
Kim Edwards
#57. Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.
Mark Ruffalo
#58. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.
Lloyd Shearer
#59. I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.
Claire Carver-Dias
#60. Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.
Paulo Coelho
#61. Things don't have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning of things.
Alberto Caeiro
#62. a full and overflowing life does not rest in bodily health, in circumstances, nor even in seeing God's work succeed, but in the perfect understanding of God, and in the same fellowship and oneness with Him that Jesus Himself enjoyed.
Oswald Chambers
#63. Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.
Denis Waitley
#64. When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.
Anthony Kennedy
#65. From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison
#66. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.
F.K. Preston
#67. My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.
Robert Owen
#68. You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding.
Yovanny Alfonso
#69. I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without warning, and often times marked with disappointment and tragedy, but equally often leading to a better understanding of the bittersweet truth of life.
Rob Lowe
#70. The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.
Paula Gunn Allen
#71. This is the status of the Bible in modern life: it is a sublime answer, but we do not know the question any more. Unless we recover the question, there is no hope of understanding the Bible.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#72. It could be that God has absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of its hem.
Annie Dillard
#73. Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life - an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice?
Lisa Wingate
#74. When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.
Stewart Stafford
#75. Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
#76. As an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#77. Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.
Marion Woodman
#78. Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.
Arielle Ford
#79. Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, you shall see life differently and you shall get a better understanding of the journey of life: how you lived it and how you should have lived it!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#80. The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?"
I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.
Theresa Breslin
#81. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#82. I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.
Dennis Quaid
#83. I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'
Tom Wolfe
#84. 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
#85. I kept reaching for my muses,
my wandering muses, floating
on clouds filled with their passions.
(Muses of Wandering Passions, p. 64)
Chimnese Davids
#86. The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others.
Jay Abraham
#87. Suffering is an essential component of life. No person escapes suffering, which is indivisible from life itself. Suffering is what places in in contact with the self; it is what allows us to understand the spiritual nature behind our existence.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#88. I believe that food is one way to make people happy. I also believe that food can unite people from all walks of life and cultures. When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony.Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table,
Chef Wan
#89. I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#90. Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#91. Many generations are dependent on a man's understanding of his appointed purpose in life.
Sunday Adelaja
#92. I am That is the supreme knowledge;
The understanding and experience of which dissolves everything,
Leading you towards completion.
Gian Kumar
#93. 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
#94. To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.
Indiana Lang
#95. The world of fantasy can always blindfold. Had I know is a gateway to the realities of life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#96. Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions.
Auliq Ice
#97. I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.
Daniel Handler
#98. Teens are desperate to have access to and make sense of public life; understanding the technologies that enable publics is just par for the course.
Danah Boyd
#99. This wonderful gray of acceptance resides between the extremes of black and white thinking; looking for serenity, explore the gray. Part of that acceptance is understanding that life is hard and involves life and death. Part of that acceptance is that I am responsible for my actions.
David W. Earle
#100. The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his day-to-day life.
William Barrett
