Quotes on Understanding

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds.

If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings

All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also means the recognition that the person on one side of the trench and the person on the other side of the trench are both human beings, with the same faculties. At some point they have to begin to understand one another.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.