I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I wasn’t the fastest or the strongest, but I had a great understanding of the game.

Every player has a role, and it’s important to understand and execute that role well.

You cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

It is important to be compassionate and understanding towards others.

To be able to really ask a question is the key to understanding.

I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

The incorruptible things are all within the narrow gate. The peace of God which passed all understanding – the bright hope of good things to come – the sense of the Spirit dwelling in us – the consciousness that we are forgiven, safe, insured, provided for in time and eternity, whatever may happen – these are true gold, and lasting riches.

I’m a huge fan of the films of the ’70s and even into the ’80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people’s lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

The quality of your being expresses the correctness of your understanding. Think

In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

Power,” he wrote, “always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws. Our passions, ambitions, avarice, love and resentment, etc., possess so much metaphysical subtlety and so much overpowering eloquence that they insinuate themselves into the understanding and the conscience and convert both to their party.

The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors

I keep thinking about Henry, who goes for a walk every day at Potomac Park. I don’t understand why I don’t even ask him to stay home. What type of Mom I’m?

Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord

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.

In primary school, sports day was the one day of the year when the less academically gifted students could triumph… As if a silver in the egg-and-spoon race was some sort of compensation for not understanding how to use an apostrophe.

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee

Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one’s self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons

Communication is about understanding, not just hearing

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery

Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail. Building a society where the primary objective is to protect one’s fragile self-esteem from the dangers of competition will only lead to a society of weakness, entitlement, and apathy. Life is necessarily competitive; society is necessarily hierarchical. It does no one any favors to pursue a utopian vision of society where no one’s feelings are hurt.

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding

I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people’s understanding can expand more easily.

I don’t like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!

I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words

The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I’m happy that I’ve had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what’s most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it’s hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you’re attached to it.

I think I have always known it, but I didn’t really know there was a name for it, or that it was different, but I have always felt inclined towards women. I have felt inclined towards men – not as deeply or sexually as towards women – but I’m definitely attracted to men.

A book is a bridge to understanding

Breaking away from the illusion of market objectivity is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

Breaking away from the illusion of market objectivity is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

Writing is a way to understand life

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

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer

Rowena: I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

I can’t sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

To be able to speak, listen, and understand the language of love is a greater education than any degree.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion

Knowledge is power

Hell is truth seen too late.

We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge

Learn from it and let it go

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free

A little good company, a little understanding, even a little love is all they need, and they often appreciate it. A little of everything, of course, because his loneliness is insatiable

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

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

The world needs more empathy and understanding. Choose kindness over judgement.

A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.

Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.

Understanding is a two-way street.

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

Religion, to have any force upon men’s understandings,–indeed, to exist at all,–must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdist thing in the world,–an acknowledged cheat.

One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way – by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.

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.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Practice, practice, practice. Anyone can learn, but you need focus, proper understanding, and to go at the right pace, not running before you can walk.

You need to know what you’re aiming for in order to reach it.

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

His understanding of the method by which organisms become first individualised and then personalised gave him a number of valuable insights. Basically, the process depends on cephalisation – the differentiation of a head as the dominant guiding region of the body, forwardly directed, and containing the main sense-organs providing information about the outer world and also the main organ of co-ordination or brain.

Our powers, whether of mind or tongue, cannot embrace that measure of understanding.

Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one’s absolute attention.

With a growing spirit of mutual understanding on so many levels, we stand ready to face the global challenges ahead, knowing that when we work together we can produce effective and enduring results.

True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself – not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

I’m regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there’s much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

Education is understanding relationships.

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.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Those who understand evil pardon it.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Reason is negative and dialectical, because it resolves the determinations of the understanding into nothing.

If we understand and feel that here, in this life, we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change

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

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

TFtrurue love is born from understanding.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

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.

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

It is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets.

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.

Relationships are based on four principles – respect, understanding, acceptance, and appreciation.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don’t want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding

You criticize without understanding. You seek only to address your own personal feelings. That is selfish thinking, Zindzi. It does not serve the nation.

Anyone I’m with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who is very understanding.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others

Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty. I’ve been a poor man, and I’ve been a rich man. And I choose rich every Time. Coz at least as a rich man when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of a limo wearing a 2,000 Dollars suits and a 40,000 dollars gold watch.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

That moment when you realize not everyone is going to like you, it’s a nice one.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding

Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

What is so exquisite is that not a word has been said by me or by her, but we understand each other so well in this unseen language of looks and tones, that this evening more clearly than ever she told me she loves me.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

You may deal with things without love; you may cut down trees, make bricks, hammer iron without love, but you cannot deal with men without it, just as you cannot deal with bees without being careful.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong

The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I’m out there, no one can bother me.

Choose people who lift you up.

Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.