I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it
I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.
People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.