Quotes About Understanding

Herein lies the key to understanding the rise and fall of all civilizations. In any given territory, the people making up the society in that territory create a culture which is unique to themselves.

The foundation of all foundations and the pillar of all wisdom is to know God." His message is that

Above all he [John F. Kennedy] gave the world for an imperishable moment the vision of a leader who greatly understood the terror and the hope, the diversity and the possibility, of life on this planet and who made people look beyond nation and race to the future of humanity.

Ama yaln?zca çok az ÅŸey biliyorum; bir uçuruma bakm?? ve dehÅŸet içinde bak??lar?n? kaç?rm?? bir gezgin gibiyim.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.

Once, as a teenager, I had believed that people could change themselves. Finally I realized that all one could ever hope was understanding one's filthy self better.

If I were a better version of me, I would not react faster than I think, would not be wounded when no harm was intended, would understand before too much time had passed to forgive...

Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.

Empowerment comes from precision, precision, precision; from language that harpoons the exact meaning, the nuance, for the intended audience.

Eu înÅ£eleg,dar neputând da explicaÅ£ii f?r? a folosi cuvinte p?gâne,aÅŸ prefera s? tac.

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

The Mishna Pirkei Avot, Ethics of the Fathers, 4:1 teaches: "Who is wise? He who learns from every person.

Better admit that there was some truth both in science and religion; and if they must fight, let it be elsewhere than in the brain of a hard-working scientist.