Understanding Quotes - page 2

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. (Ambrose Bierce)
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. View quote
Maya Angelou
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. View quote
Og Mandino
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
We often attribute "understanding" and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. View quote
John Searle
I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding." View quote
John Searle
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. View quote
Vannevar Bush
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. View quote
Karl Rove
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. (Walter Lippmann)
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. View quote
Amelia Earhart
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. View quote
Albert Camus
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. View quote
Northrop Frye
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! View quote
Richard Feynman
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. View quote
Carl Sagan
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. (Audre Lorde)
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order. View quote
Kamisese Mara
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. View quote
Ann Landers
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? View quote
Pablo Picasso