Quotes by Understanding For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime. Baal Shem Tov accomplishment understanding common Be first the master of yourself Baltasar Gracian understanding wisdom firsts Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. Baltasar Gracian understanding wise sometimes You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession. Baltasar Gracian understanding desire character Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity Banana Yoshimoto single-mom understanding loss I don't need to apologize for my behavior you need to apologize for not understanding. Bar Refaeli apology understanding needs Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding. Barack Obama understanding opportunity remember I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding. Barack Obama understanding people thinking My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote their conscience, and if their conscience leads them that way, they should follow their conscience. Barbara Boxer understanding college want The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done? Barbara Ehrenreich understanding real might Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison understanding belief faith I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience. Barbara Kruger understanding feelings thinking The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life. Barbara Kruger understanding ambition art By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator. Barbara Marx Hubbard design understanding expression When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think. Barry Commoner environmental understanding thinking The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves. Barry Lopez urges understanding land "Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons. Barry N. Malzberg captains motivation understanding The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will. Bartolome de las Casas understanding teaching men The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. Baruch Spinoza understanding education inspirational The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. Baruch Spinoza intuition understanding wisdom «1112131415161718192021»
