Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.
Understanding money is part of being independent. You can't be self-sufficient if you're relying on someone else.
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.
Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.
For me, love is magic; it's about trust and understanding. It's putting the other person before you effortlessly.
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.
Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.
We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.
Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?
Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.
The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.
Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.
Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.
No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.
Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.
I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.
My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.
I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.
Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.
In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.
One thing I've always prided myself on is understanding that to have success, you have to have high-character kids.