Understanding Quotes
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If someone comes in without having been on a spiritual path for long, he or she still will understand what is happening to them in their human lives, what is happening through the evolution, how their humanness is playing such an important role at this time, and where they are in their lives with their inner feelings. It actually gives them a support system, a base from which they can start to evolve naturally within themselves through the understanding of our humanness, of our imperfection.
Christine McCormick Day -
I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.
Allison Williams
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Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.
Nicholas Serota -
The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.
Martin Heidegger -
The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.
Jonathan Groff -
Dawning understanding. "You were jealous?
Barbara Cameron -
In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.
William Arthur Ward -
Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge; it is a matter of understanding, that is to say, of organizing what is know.
Anthony John Patrick Kenny
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Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.
Elizabeth Lowell -
This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout the genome. The goal is to be able to change it as radically as our understanding permits.
George M. Church -
The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.
Isaac Watts -
I wish that in the course of my visit to places the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] calls home, all of a sudden, we would reach a clear understanding on how we can resolve the matters. We will be very glad if that happens. Are there any chances? Perhaps.
Vladimir Putin -
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.
Calvin Seerveld
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
John Locke Nazareth -
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
William Stafford -
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
John Shelby Spong -
without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily
Kay Hooper -
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
Winifred Holtby -
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
Vivienne Westwood
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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 -
It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.
William P. Young -
I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.
Phil Klay -
I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.
Thomas Harris