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Quotes About Understand

We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers' burdens.
~ Janet Reno
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
~ Thom Mayne
You've got to respect people; you've got to understand where they come from. We know where people in Oklahoma come from - that's why we get along.
~ Markwayne Mullin
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
~ George Santayana
What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
~ Taj Mahal
My children can really understand the Olympic Games, To have a medal is very, very special.
~ Tim Henman
I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
~ Kate Grenville
There is not a lot known about the informal economy, and yet it makes over 60% of the global economy. And these black markets are all around us. It's important for us to know that and to understand how they operate if we really want to stop them.
~ Mariana van Zeller
I believe in an informed electorate, and we need to teach our children to become informed enough to have opinions on world issues or, at least, to understand what the major issues are and who the players are.
~ Daniel Levitin
The more abstract, the more ideal an art is, the more it reveals to us the temper of its age. If we wish to understand a nation by means of its art, let us look at its architecture or its music.
~ Oscar Wilde
Like all poetical natures he [Christ] loved ignorant people. He knew that in the soul of one who is ignorant there is always room for a great idea. But he could not stand stupid people, especially those who are made stupid by education: people who are full of opinions not one of which they even understand...
~ Oscar Wilde
A misanthrope I can understand—a womanthrope, never!
~ Oscar Wilde
I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand
~ Oscar Wilde
It is difficult to understand those whom one does not hate, for then one is unarmed, one has nothing with which to penetrate into their being.
~ Par Lagerkvist
who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking isn't going to help you understand. You're not ready to understand it yet; you have to live your way into the meaning.
~ Pat Barker
When the prophet Jeremiah, for example, says, "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick: Who can understand it?" we have to recognize from our heart that we are the ones spoken of, that, indeed, I am the one described. Only then is a foundation laid for spiritual formation into Christlikeness.
~ Dallas Willard
Most but not all uncertainties in the minds of disciples—and this is only somewhat less so for people in general—are the result of unclarities and failures to understand. These shut down confidence and love, and we must never rest until they are cleanly dispersed from the mind.
~ Dallas Willard
Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I'll never understand God. My heart tells me I'm not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]
~ Dan Brown
Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage ... an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.
~ Dan Brown
science and religion are not at odds. science is just too young to understand.
~ Dan Brown
Early humans," Langdon lectured on-screen, "had a relationship of wonder with their universe, especially with those phenomena they could not rationally understand.
~ Dan Brown
all questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
~ Dan Brown
Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to." How
~ Dan Brown