Quotessence
Home / Topics / Understanding Quotes

Understanding Quotes

Browse 8512 quotes about Understanding.

Related topics

PeopleIfsWorldThinkingWayMenKnowsHumansMindNeedsMeanWantGivingShouldMayHeartTryingImportantKindDoePersonsFirstsArtScienceBelieveFeelsHelpingWellsRealUnderstoodLittlesDifferentChildrenSelfIdeasLifeProblemUseFeelingsMadeMatterWisdomHas BeensLooksSpiritualCompassionFactsReasonRealityMomentsWholeLanguageProcessYearsAbleUniverseOrderSometimesBookSpiritStillsCultureGreaterInspirationalWritingEmpathyActionCharacterLongTwoKnowingEndsSoulBodyStudyStatesIndividualMightSaidStoriesEnoughLevelsViewsSufferingDesireLawListeningInsightSimpleTogetherAbilityCountryMovingClearGrowsTermCommunicationFormCertainHardmore

Understanding Quotes

“Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.”

WayBelieveMayPersonsDoeHandsEvilBeliefProcessUnderstandingWealthEconomyCreationCostIntellectualResourcesFortuneAlternativesExploitationProphecyDoomGood FortuneHand In Hand
Author:Julian Simon
Create image

“To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.”

WorldHumansEndsSelfHelpingHumanityAsksUnderstandingExistenceGreaterProgressSocietyFinalsInsightSelf RealizationRealizationAnalysisOur WorldMetaphysicsHuman ProgressGauges
Author:Rudolph Rummel
Create image

“The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life”

KnowsMenSoulHomeBodySpiritualUnderstandingMemoriesSinLordEternalAffectionVicesFlightGod LoveMeritDemonGood LifeSacramentsSweetnessEverlastingIncentivesKnowing GodEnlighteningEternal Life
Author:Thomas Aquinas
Create image

“When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.”

SoulLightSpiritualJoySpiritDesireFallUnderstandingGraceWonderfulMysteryBecomingHighestAngelBrilliantEndlessSubstanceHeavenlyCitizenshipDistributionTransparentApprehensionPresence Of GodChoirSunbeamsHidden ThingsBecoming God
Author:Saint Basil
Create image

“In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of government”

IfsMenGovernmentActionScienceCausesUnderstandingNaturalAttentionEconomyStudyFateEconomicKingsPureWasteUnderstoodDestructionImportanceWoodsForestsPreservationRapidsStandpoint
Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
Create image

“Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.”

MenShouldProblemHandsAbleUnderstandingStruggleInvolvedThousandMembersAverageEightPracticalsFactorsMembershipFraternityAlphas
Author:Jewel
Create image

“I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.”

ThinkingBigsUnderstandingRealizingPowerfulConsciousnessOpinionIntellectualImpactIntuitionIntellectSignificantAnalysisAbstractLogicalIntuitiveVery PowerfulBig ImpactAbstract Thinking
Author:Steve Jobs
Create image

“No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.”

MenWorldWayMadeUseSeemsEarthFormCultureUnderstandingTermNatureAnimalDarknessCenturyTaughtCivilizationRelationPlantObstaclesEnormousWildernessDogmaCrystalsConceitWildness
Author:John Muir
Create image

“For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.”

PeopleRealCountryNationsUnderstandingPresidentEducationDemocracySecurityCitizensHopefulImplicationsReal Strength
Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
Create image

“The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.”

ScienceUnderstandingPerfectUnderstoodBasesVainAccomplishedInfinityPresumptionUnderstanding Everything
Book:Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition
Create image

“When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical pain, because your mind is filled with light, love and understanding.”

IfsFeelsMindStillsBodyLightPainUnderstandingHurtTeacherFilledExtremesEnlightenedOverwhelmedPhysical BodyPhysical Pain
Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
Create image

“A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.”

IfsKnowsMenFeelsSelfMotivationalUnderstandingCompassionKnownEnemyKnowingAngryViewpoints
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.”

ShouldYearsMindHumansMayPersonsDoeHas BeensMatterMotivationalAgeUnderstandingHuman BeingsAnimalGrowing UpGrowingCapacityNotesStuckManageFiftyDistinctionFortyMediocreSeventiesGrowing OldThirteenMediocre Minds
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.”

UsedUnderstandingUsed To BeBelongingIrrelevantPresent LifeEmote
Book:The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
Create image

“Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.”

WayInspirationalLongFeelingsChoicesUnderstandingCreativityPossibilityMaterialsUltimateSeriesPhysicsYou ChooseQuantumQuantum Physics
Author:Amit Goswami
Create image

“The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest, the soft word of understanding, the daily companionship, the encouragement offered in a difficult moment, the small gift when least expected, the spontaneous gesture of love.”

PeopleTwoRealMomentsTogetherDifficultUnderstandingMarriageQuietConversationTasksEncouragementExpectedGesturesSpontaneousCompanionshipDifficult MomentsSmall Gifts
Book:We, understanding the psychology of romantic love
Create image

“The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place where no one wanted to live. In our right minds we want to seek out places that reek of complexity. Our drive to industrialize soured and undercut the intimacies that drew most people to country life in the first place.”

PeopleWayWantMindFirstsCountryWantedDiesUnderstandingLandEmptyComplexesIntimacyComplexityValleysEcologyFranticCountry LifeOld LifeUndercut
Author:William Kittredge
Create image

“But the plain fact of the matter is that, for any person to successfully lead others, he or she must deal with reality and be ready to accept the fact that leadership , at times, can bring out the worst in us. And understanding, as well as coming to grips with the darker side of your personality, is key to dealing with real-life situations.”

WellsPersonsRealMatterFactsRealityMotivationalUnderstandingSidesDealsSituationAcceptingWorstReadyKeysPersonalityReal LifeDarker Side
Author:Donald T. Phillips
Create image