Understanding Quotes - page 5

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness. (Arthur C. Clarke)
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
This book is not a history. Rather it is an attempt to establish analytical tools that will assist the understanding of history. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. View quote
Johann Georg Hamann
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. View quote
Franz Kafka
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. View quote
Franz Kafka
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. View quote
Laozi
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. (Martin Luther)
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult. View quote
Mark Haddon
If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works. View quote
Andrew Pyper
I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words. View quote
Tim Burton
I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do. View quote
Shari Arison
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. View quote
Arthur Henderson
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding. View quote
Jean Webster
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding. (Donna Jo Napoli)
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. View quote
Amy Bloom
An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone. View quote
Yehuda Berg
We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support. View quote
Hjalmar Branting