Quotes by Understanding Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion? Oliver Heaviside dinnerdigestionunderstanding When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established. Norman Vincent Peale unityunderstandingattitude To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future; the freedom to get beyond ourselves...in states of mind that allow us to rise above our immediate surroundings and see the beauty and value of the world we live in. Oliver Sacks understandingmindneeds The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here. Noam Chomsky understandingcollegepeople What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon. Oliver Stone united-statesunderstandingbelieve In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding. Olympia Brown furnitureunderstandinglosing Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them. Olivia Wilde understandingcharacterideas Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. Oliver Goldsmith generositygiving-upunderstanding When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back. Omar Khayyam carpe-diemunderstandingtrying Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try. Omar Suleiman positive-thinkingunderstandingtrying It is such a comfort to nestle up to Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael when one is in trouble. He is such a grand tree. He has an understanding soul. After I talked with him and listened unto his voice, I slipped down out of his arms. Opal Whiteley voiceunderstandingtree I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation. Oren Lyons eaglesunderstandingnative-american Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. Oliver Goldsmith ethicsunderstandingintegrity He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it. Origen understandingspiritualmind You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot. Noam Chomsky understandingstrugglewinning To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth. Os Guinness qualityunderstandingchristian People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA]. Noam Chomsky usaunderstandingpeople If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt. Os Guinness understandingdoubtbelieve If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. Oprah Winfrey individualityunderstandingidentity For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience. Oswald Chambers understandingspiritualmatter«126127128129130131132133134135136»
