Top understanding Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of understanding quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of David Foster Wallace
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
- David Foster Wallace
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Image of Ryan North
If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again.
- Ryan North
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Image of Frances Wright
Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.
- Frances Wright
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Image of Edward Witten
I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.
- Edward Witten
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Image of Joseph Bruchac
Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.
- Joseph Bruchac
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Image of Jacqueline Woodson
In all your getting, get understanding.
- Jacqueline Woodson
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Image of Giambattista Vico
Understanding arises through making
- Giambattista Vico
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Image of Saul Perlmutter
So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising
- Saul Perlmutter
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Image of Louis Pasteur
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language
- Louis Pasteur
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Image of Jonathan Nolan
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
- Jonathan Nolan
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Image of Karen Russell
Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes "good" from "bad" luck.
- Karen Russell
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Image of Edward Teller
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
- Edward Teller
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Image of Roger Rosenblatt
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.
- Roger Rosenblatt
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Image of Paul Stamets
We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding with the organisms that sustain us today, not only will we destroy those organisms, but we will destroy ourselves.
- Paul Stamets
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Image of Wei Wu Wei
Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.
- Wei Wu Wei
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Image of Peter Berg
I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.
- Peter Berg
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Image of Scott Adams
Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.
- Scott Adams
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Image of Jean Piaget
Experience precedes understanding.
- Jean Piaget
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Image of Kay Hooper
without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily
- Kay Hooper
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Image of Simon Sinek
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
- Simon Sinek
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Image of Heraclitus
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
- Heraclitus
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Image of Tim Minchin
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
- Tim Minchin
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Image of Brad Pitt
There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.
- Brad Pitt
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Image of Mortimer Adler
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
- Mortimer Adler
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Image of Larry Crabb
It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate
- Larry Crabb
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Image of Jane Wagner
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
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Image of Gerhard Schroder
They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.
- Gerhard Schroder
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Image of L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.
- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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Image of Eudora Welty
The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
- Eudora Welty
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Image of Eudora Welty
Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.
- Eudora Welty
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Image of Vanna Bonta
There is no hospitality like understanding.
- Vanna Bonta
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Image of Fay Weldon
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.
- Fay Weldon
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Image of Rosie Thomas
Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.
- Rosie Thomas
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Image of Dorothy Rowe
We can love someone without understanding that person.
- Dorothy Rowe
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Image of Nancy Willard
We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.
- Nancy Willard
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Image of Rowan Williams
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?
- Rowan Williams
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Image of Kenzaburo Oe
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
- Kenzaburo Oe
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Image of Brian Cox
Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.
- Brian Cox
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Image of Susan Boyle
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.
- Susan Boyle
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Image of John Templeton
It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.
- John Templeton
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Image of Yasmina Khadra
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.
- Yasmina Khadra
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Image of Lester B. Pearson
Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
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Image of Guy Spier
We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
- Guy Spier
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Image of Emanuel Swedenborg
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.
- Emanuel Swedenborg
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Image of Susan Sontag
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
- Susan Sontag
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Image of Yanni
As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
- Yanni
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Image of Katherine Boo
In my kind of reporting work, you don't parachute in after some big, terrible event, which is important and has to be covered, but offers only a glimpse. It's the kind of work in which you ask, what is my understanding of how the world works, and where can I go to see these questions get worked out in individuals' lives? That was really the question for me: whether I had anything to add to what had already been written.
- Katherine Boo
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Image of Leonard Mlodinow
Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.
- Leonard Mlodinow
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