Quotes by Understanding All understanding begins in wonder! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe understandingwonder Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks. John Milton understandinglandthinking I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I didn't know it was misinformation. It sort of inwardly in my psyche laid the template for music being affiliated with my father and my family. Jon Gordon understandingmotherfather It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary John Steinbeck understandingkindnessmen We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings. Jonathan Nolan instrumentsunderstandinghumans There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. Jonathan Safran Foer understanding-yourselfunderstandingpeople Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and of modern science are both needed to reach a full understanding of human nature and the conditions of human satisfaction. The ancients may have known little about biology, chemistry, physics, but many were good psychologists. Jonathan Haidt understandingexamplemay Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind. Jonathan Haidt understandingsimplemind One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding. Jonathan Edwards defectsunderstandingchildren Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. Jonathan Safran Foer crueltyabilityunderstanding How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one. Jonathan Franzen understandingrealorder Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too) Jonathan Stroud understandingsleepanimal When you've got Jews and Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus removing graffiti from buildings, or getting drug dealers off the street, that's side by side. When you do that, you take it from the very elevated level of interfaith dialogue to the street level of neighbors. You get them working side by side, and they become friends. Friendship sometimes counts for more than interfaith agreement or understanding. Friendship is deeply human. Jonathan Sacks drugunderstandingchristian Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. Jonathan Swift understandingwind Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Jose A. Teixeira understandingpurposejesus Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer. Joseph Bruchac understandingeasy Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding. Joseph Addison sensitivityreadyunderstanding Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption. Joseph Fiennes qualityunderstandingthinking The spirit of God speaking to the spirit of man has power to impart truth with greater effect and understanding than the truth can be imparted by personal contact even with heavenly beings. Through the Holy Ghost, the truth is woven into the very fibre and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten. Joseph Fielding Smith wovenunderstandingmen Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant. Joseph Addison understandinggolddoubt«8687888990919293949596»
