Quotes by Understanding He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood. Nicole Krauss solitudeunderstandingloneliness Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism. Niger Innis understandingrightsamerica Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it. Nicole Kidman marriedcompromiseunderstanding What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. Nikola Tesla communityunderstandingpride A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them Ninon de L'Enclos understandingchoicesmen We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact with. Our tendency to get attached to impermanent experiences causes sorrow, lamentation and grief, because eventually we are separated from everything and everyone we love. Our lack of acceptance and understanding of this fact makes life unsatisfactory. Noah Levine understandinggriefacceptance However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant. Nobuo Uematsu pleasantmusic-isunderstanding We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on. Noam Chomsky understandingclasswar I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them. Noam Chomsky supportunderstandingthinking Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world. Norman Cousins preparationunderstandingschool The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say no. People have base instincts, but the transcendent also appeal to them. Norman Lear understandingusepeople The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste. Norman Mailer passioncuriosityunderstanding I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. Noto emotionalunderstandingintellectual Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye atheismunderstandingintellectual The poem of the understanding is philosophy. Novalis understandingphilosophy Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding. Obert C. Tanner communityunderstandingimagination It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them. Odilon Redon understandingjudgingimpossible In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama. Okakura Kakuzo understandingteamen Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. Norman Vincent Peale understandingovercomingmay Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated. Noam Chomsky understandingsimplematter«125126127128129130131132133134135»
