Understanding Quotes

• At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else.

  

  Donald Wuerl
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Why
  • Understanding
  • Journey

• I think sales is the most important skill set young people can learn. Understanding how to pitch an idea with confidence and secure a client are valuable skills that apply to every single aspect of business.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • People
  • Important
  • Business

• I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Understanding

• The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Understanding

• When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Freedom
  • Shadow
  • Simplicity

• I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Understanding
  • Fool

• Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

  

  Ang Lee
  • World
  • Movie
  • Way

• In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

  

  John Burdett
  • Thinking
  • Lost
  • Poverty

• As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Body
  • Hungry
  • Gourmet

• If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Know
  • Understanding

• Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Night
  • Understanding
  • Retrospective

• There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

  

  Douglas Hurd
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Believe
  • May
  • Truth

• War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Country
  • Why
  • War

• I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • American
  • Movie

• Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.

  

  Reggie Watts
  • Science
  • Themselves
  • Figure

• I have an understanding with my wife. When I get home, she`s ready with my robe, slippers and lots of hot water. She knows I hate to do the dishes in cold water.

  

  Duffy Daugherty
  • Wife
  • Understanding
  • Have

• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • Men
  • Understanding

• Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Mistake
  • Doe
  • Objectivity

• You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • May

• The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you're actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can't forget that and run your economy. But it's not the only thing you need to know.

  

  Alvin E. Roth
  • Up
  • Great
  • Simple

• The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Understanding
  • Judgment
  • Customs

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