Understanding Quotes

• My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

  

  William Shatner
  • Fans
  • Stars
  • Canada

• The spontaneous understanding of geometrical concepts and maps by this remote human community provides evidence that core geometrical knowledge is a universal constituent of the human mind.

  

  Elizabeth Spelke
  • Knowledge
  • Evidence
  • Human Mind

• Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I don't think you automatically become an enlightened person because you are a daddy. But they will change you, of course - their understanding of you puts you in a different place.

  

  John Hurt
  • Different
  • Understanding

• What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Peace
  • Understanding

• Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Reading
  • Ideas
  • Model

• I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Purpose

• I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Communicate
  • Messages
  • Psychedelic

• Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.

  

  Adi Shankara
  • Reality
  • Understanding
  • Experienced

• We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Humans
  • Said
  • Scratches

• Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Remember
  • Car
  • Drama

• One might argue that proper understanding of any social situation would require game-theoretic analysis.

  

  John Harsanyi
  • Game
  • Understanding

• Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • Faith
  • Alone
  • Universe

• There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Together
  • Society
  • Understanding

• I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from a fundamental restlessness, an attempt to create tools for questioning or understanding, and I have always been interested in using a wide spectrum of mediums to do this.

  

  Doug Aitken
  • Understanding
  • Aesthetic

• I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Create
  • Awareness
  • I Hope

• The Burning Imperative is a sharply defined, intensely shared, and purposefully urgent understanding from each of the team members of what they are “supposed to do, now,” and how this works with the larger aspirations of the team and the organization.

  

  George Bradt
  • Team
  • Understanding
  • Organization

• The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Different
  • Party

• I am pleading with you to be understanding, patient and flexible. The future has a myriad of unknowns that makes static decision making nearly impossible.

  

  Wayne A. I. Frederick
  • Future
  • Understanding
  • Decision

• My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

  

  Bono U2
  • Understanding
  • Christ
  • Scriptures

• You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Real
  • Identity

• I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.

  

  David Souter
  • People
  • Understanding

• Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

  

  Nostradamus
  • Intellect
  • Flames
  • Zodiac

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