Understanding Quotes

• Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Poor
  • Pity

• 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
  • Home
  • Wish
  • Chance

• The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.

  

  Sydney Brenner
  • Understanding
  • Biology
  • Molecular

• Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

  

  Ayad Akhtar
  • Important
  • Understanding

• I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • I Believe
  • Nations
  • Limitation

• Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

  

  Paz Vega
  • Life
  • Real
  • Understanding

• Millennials are an easy group to identify in terms of their appearance and are therefore highly subject to being stereotyped. When a negative stereotype about a group is relevant to performance on a specific task, it is referred to as "stereotype threat." Individuals who are highly identified with a particular group may experience increased susceptibility to stereotype threat.Understanding perceptions and why they may exist helps to explain and demystify tension and conflict that surfaces as a result of generational discord.

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Helping
  • Perception
  • Conflict

• You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

  

  Paul Rand
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Understanding

• So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising

  

  Saul Perlmutter
  • World
  • Helping
  • Someday

• In talking and communicating, it's important that we really share information with one another - because I think that leads to better understanding - and also just kind of educate one another in a way that's really honest.

  

  Nia Long
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Kind

• 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
  • Important
  • Long
  • Giving

• Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Understanding
  • Being
  • Determination

• Being an American is an action; it's an ideal to strive for. It's being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation, expands our scope and human understanding of 'We the people.'

  

  Sarah McBride
  • American
  • Generation
  • Union

• Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Understanding
  • Distance
  • Pains

• Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Understanding
  • Developing
  • Songwriter

• Part of what dressing for yourself means requires your understanding that the scrutiny of others is frankly irrelevant.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Understanding

• When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Ideas
  • Reflection
  • French

• For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Students

• The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want to kill you? I remember asking my parents, 'Why is it when people are trying to help other people then they're dying?'

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Trying
  • Dying

• Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.

  

  Michael E. Mann
  • World
  • Together
  • Study

• I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
  • War
  • Soul
  • Understanding

• There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Understanding

• A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

  

  Ninon de L'Enclos
  • Understanding
  • Choice
  • Loving

• It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

  

  Richard McCabe
  • Light
  • Mean
  • Strange

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