Quotes by Understanding I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed. So I sort of turn things over to whatever you want to call it - whether it's God, or the universe or the spirit of the universe - and I just sort of turn things over to God and hope that this spirit that has been around for 15 billion years will have a better understanding of how things should be than I do. Moby perspectiveunderstandingyears Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself." Morgan Spurlock fringeunderstandingpeople There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment. Mooji contentmentunderstandingjoy To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent. Mortimer Adler disagreeagreeunderstanding Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding. Mortimer Adler obstaclesunderstandingfacts If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds. Mortimer Adler understandingreadingbook Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. Moses Finley wasteunderstandingsake Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God. Mortimer Adler angelunderstandingideas The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight Moses Mendelssohn glassesunderstandingsight A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. Muhammad Iqbal aggravationunderstandingmen His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy. Munro Leaf understandingmotherhappiness Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does. Muhammad Ali diversityunderstandingjustice Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial 'solutions' serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes. Murray Bookchin depthunderstandingcharacter The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become. Muhammad Ali testslevelsunderstanding There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding. Myrtle Reed forgivenessunderstandinghouse In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music. Nadia Boulanger musicsolitudeunderstanding I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible. Myles Munroe statesunderstandingprinciples A strict master will not have understanding sons. Nachman of Breslov understandingmastersson Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag. Nadine Gordimer understandingwritingart Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited. Nan Fairbrother offersunderstandingshould«119120121122123124125126127128129»
