Understanding Quotes

Much learning does not teach understanding. (Heraclitus)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. View quote
Carl Jung
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. View quote
Stephen Hawking
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. View quote
Upton Sinclair
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. View quote
James Meade
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. View quote
Anthony Robbins
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. View quote
Helen Keller
Understanding is a two-way street. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. View quote
Albert Einstein
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. View quote
George Soros
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. View quote
Edith Wharton
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. View quote
Robert Delaunay
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out ... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. View quote
A. E. Housman
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. View quote
Charles Kettering
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. View quote
Rockwell Kent
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. (John Lennon)
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. View quote
Edward Gibbon
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. View quote
Edmund Burke
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. View quote
Donald Knuth
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey