Understanding Quotes - page 4

The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk. (George S. Patton)
Understanding is, after all, what science is all about - and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. View quote
Roger Penrose
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know? View quote
Marvin Minsky
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? View quote
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels. View quote
Roger Ebert
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success. View quote
Arianna Huffington
Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper. View quote
Christine de Pizan
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. View quote
Richard Bach
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. View quote
George Etherege
There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument. View quote
John Searle
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. (Samuel Richardson)
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. View quote
Nhat Hanh
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operations of the international moneylenders... the accounts of the Federal Reserve have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and... manipulates the credit of the United States. View quote
Barry Goldwater
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them. View quote
José Saramago
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. (David Hume)
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. View quote
John Steinbeck
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. View quote
Terry Pratchett