Quotes by Understanding The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible. Henryk Sienkiewicz effortunderstandingclass The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have. Heraclitus understandingpeopleknowledge Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding Herb Kelleher understandingorganizationsoul I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated. Henry A. Kissinger understandingamericamoving And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do. Herb Ritts understandingfactspeople Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth. Henry Ward Beecher understandingmattermay Learning many things does not teach understanding Heraclitus teachunderstandingdoe The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. Henry Miller understandingoppositesart Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding. Helen Keller give-meunderstandinggiving Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent." Heraclitus deafunderstandinglistening Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Heraclitus delayunderstandingtoday Chemists in earlier centuries were quite interested in the nature of acids. They had no interest in analysing their concept of acid. After all, they knew that their understanding of acids was at a fairly primitive level, and what they wanted to do was understand something about the world better - the nature of acidity - not something about their own concepts. Hilary Kornblith levelsunderstandingworld I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy I like to draw here is with our understanding of (other) natural kinds. Hilary Kornblith analogiesunderstandingviews I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself. Hermann Hesse understandingsoulmen We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support Hjalmar Branting supportunderstandingyears The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of it. Censorship in his case has perpetrated heavy and sometimes reprehensible blunders. Hollis Alpert visionunderstandingartist Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it. Henry Miller understandingacceptancewriting As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had. Frederick Lenz ramaunderstandingwonderful The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and which allows the prediction of those it shall undergo in the future. The only way to understand these changes and their causes is to study the present-day state of the globe in order to gradually reconstruct its earlier stages, and to develop probable hypotheses on its future state. Therefore, the present state of the earth is the only solid base on which the theory can rely. Horace-Benedict de Saussure understandingorderscience Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause. Hippocrates understandingbrainheart«6364656667686970717273»
