Quotes About Understanding

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.

The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

All life is profoundly dependent on communication.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

As with the terms "physics" and "science," so too with terms like "cosmology" and "psychology," the wisest policy is, in my view, not to quibble about contemporary usage but rather to use the best modern labels, qualify them as one sees fit, and then to get on with matters of substance.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

If you make the effort to work through the ideas I'll be setting out in this book, then even if you do not end up agreeing with me that the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and the natural law conception of morality are rationally unavoidable, you will understand how reasonable people could be convinced of this.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Human science is an uncertain guess.