Top Understanding Quotes

There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, whe...

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

Understanding Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Understand

(a.) Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

(n.) The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

(n.) An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.

(n.) The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.

(n.) Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.

Understand the flaws and you will know the perfection of the Universe.

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with int...

If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal

Satan will always whisper don't care, be silent, you didn't do anything wrong, your better than them, your stronger than your enemies. However, a true daughter or son of God says back: I hurt so I wil...

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned wi...

Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.

those who get upset for being treated the way that they treat others, will never understand why others treat them the way that they treat others.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Listening with the focus of actually understanding what the other person is trying to communicate is priceless, a talent that everyone possesses but not something that is practiced enough.

you can't fight with who you are

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Silence is only awkward if one cannot feel a connection with the other.

Children are less easily frightened than we are.... they all understand princesses, of course. Haven't they all been badly bruised by peas?

It makes me sad that so many people feel they're only allowed to show their best face, while their humanity and vulnerabilities are forbidden and hidden. How else do we connect, but by commonality, by...

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of Engli...

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.