Quotes About Understanding

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

First with the head, then with the heart.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.

She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.