Quotes by Understanding When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity. Anthony Kennedy libertyunderstandinghumanity For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery. Anthony Mackie loving-familyunderstandingcompassion Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life. Anthony Powell understandingselfgiving It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it. Anthony Stafford Beer probabilityunderstandingreal [Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it. Anthony Standen phrasesunderstandingscience I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work. Anthony Zinni understandingeyethinking Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery understandingforeverchildren That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups. Antoine de Saint-Exupery understandingchildrenway The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings. Anton Chekhov understandingsorrowpeople The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them. Anton Chekhov understandingunhappypeople The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language. Anton Chekhov understandingnumbersideas When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. Antonin Artaud understandinglifefacts But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. Antonin Artaud scientistunderstandingmath No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. Antonio Machado understandinglightvices Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. Antonio Porchia mankindunderstandingmen The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that. Antony Beevor historiandutyunderstanding In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category? Antony Flew spaceunderstandingforever Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience. Antony Gormley art-isunderstandingart The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior. Anuj understandingattitudecharacter As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding. Anzia Yezierska understandingdumbheart«89101112131415161718»
