Quotes About Understanding

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.