Quotes About Understanding

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

My guiding principle has always been that we do better when we respect one another.

Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.

A preliminary agreement in principle is not a deal.

Even if you're right you have to forgive. It's a principle that works, whether you believe in God or not.

My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.

I don't think cricket is a game that people who have never played or been involved in understand the excitement. It's a game that is full of excitement, because cricket lovers follow the game and understand the basic principles and rules. They become connoisseurs of the game.

I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.

I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it.

The reason the gifted students of the world like Khan Academy is because we don't say, 'Memorize this formula,' but say, 'Let's try to derive it from core principles,' or, 'I forgot my trig identity, so I'm going to just try to prove this to you.'

Sarcasm is lost in print.

That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.

I want people to understand that irrespective of their profession, family time should be the priority.