Quotes on Understanding

When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.

And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

A poem doesn't do everything for you._x000D_ You are supposed to go on with your thinking._x000D_ You are supposed to enrich_x000D_ the other person's poem with your extensions,_x000D_ your uniquely personal understandings,_x000D_ thus making the poem serve you.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

In every trial Let understanding fight for you.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine.

The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.