Acting is a journey of self-discovery; every role is a new chapter in understanding the human experience

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Through my experience in my life, the number of people I ever come across most of them are only interested in one single thing, and that is actually how to escape at all times. But I don’t understand why people always want to run away or to escape from their things in life.

I don’t follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it’s like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won’t hear me say, ‘What’s up, dude’ or anything like that just for the heck of it.

Writing is a way to understand life

Language is a tool for understanding and empathy, and literature is its most powerful expression.

Literature is a bridge between people, cultures, and times. It allows us to understand others and ourselves

In my own view, Hamas’ disappointment gets from an absence of legitimization by Israel and by a great part of the world. It is this disappointment that leads them to such ruinous urgency. That is the reason we have to give them status as a real adversary – before we talk about an understanding or, on the other hand, about a frontal war.

I was pleased my dad communicated in Arabic smoothly – his dad sent him to take Arabic from a sheik – and we had Arab companions. His assignment of understanding the Arabs – governmental issues as well as verse – was significant; he accepted it as employment.

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

Peter Elers, one of the first openly gay vicars in the Church of England, who blessed a lesbian ‘marriage’ in 1976 on the understanding that, if the Church blessed battleships and budgerigars, it ought to find it in its heart to bless men and women in love

Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment

Let it be understood that the University is a preparatory school: it is life that gives you the “finals”—not college.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

To give me all your love is all I ever ask ‘Cause what you don’t understand is I’d catch a grenade for ya

My neighbours think I’m crazy But they don’t understand You’re all I had

When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Don’t worry about what you do not understand… Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

I think it’s important for people who don’t know you to get a sense of the way you view the world, your politics, your point of view. I think that helps people understand your takes on various things.

Among all the commodities that exist in this earthly world, Gold stands as the most precious one.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does not need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

This is how grace works; it enters the soul, penetrates the heart, saturates the conscience, abides in the memory, affects the affections, gives understanding to the understanding, and imparts real life to the heart, which is the seat of life.

The best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

You have to know the past to understand the present.

The less we understand of what our forebears sought, the less we understand ourselves. And thus, we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Neitzsche called, ‘the spirit of gravity.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

To stand face to face with insecurity is still not to understand it. To understand it you must be it.

As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imagine how anyone can understand the human soul without it.