Quotes About Understanding

Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

Bioenergetics is a way of understanding personality in terms of the body and its energetic processes.

He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God's time for the rest.

If a man realises God's hold on him, he feels all others relaxed.

Skeptics become overwhelmed by the different and conflicting accounts of what happiness, justice, truth are all about.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Like metaphors and works of art, the people who matter to us are all, so far as we are concerned, inexhaustible. They always remain a step beyond the furthest point our knowledge of them has reached—though only if, and as long as, they still matter to us.

At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Stuff the headWith all such reading as was never read:For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it,And write about it, Goddess, and about it.

At ev'ry trifle scorn to take offense.

Say first, of God above or man below,What can we reason but from what we know?

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.

Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,No language, but the language of the heart.

The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

If to her share some female errors fall,Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Know thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do.

A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go.