Quotes by Understanding One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding. Alice Walker understandingwisdomhair We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends on our good health. It depends on our understanding of the environment and somehow we got those separate. Alice Waters environmentunderstandingtogether Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing. Alicia Keys understandingimportantmean I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results. Alicia Keys understandingattentionideas I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of a universe I live in. It's always deepening my understanding of the natural world. Alison Hawthorne Deming understandinganimalworld It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence. Allan Sandage understandingscienceworld Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world. Allan Sekula envyunderstandingphotography Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone. Allen Drury understandingjudgingkindness Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if Marx's thought its studied and appreciated, if people gain a better understanding of Fichte, whose philosophy is far more important than people realize. Allen W. Wood understandingphilosophypeople Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic feelings by participating in the situations of others and acquiring an understanding of them. He thinks we also have a duty to make ourselves into the kind of person for whom the recognition that something is our duty would be a sufficient incentive to do it (if no other incentives were available to us). That's what he means by "the duty to act from the motive of duty". Allen W. Wood understandingmeanthinking The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him. Allen W. Wood prejudiceunderstandingreading Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers. Alma Gluck understandingteacherhands I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding. Alton Brown understandingstuffwriting It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion. Aly Khan unityislamunderstanding My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore. Aly Raisman work-outunderstandingschool ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. Ambrose Bierce oratoryunderstandingcheating KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer. Ambrose Bierce lexicographerkissingunderstanding REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . . whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it. Ambrose Bierce understandingtryinglife VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. Ambrose Bierce duncesunderstandingsuffering INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said. Ambrose Bierce differentunderstandingtwo«345678910111213»
