"Understanding" Quotes . Top 32 Short Quotes About "Understanding"

"Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant."

--- A. H. Almaas

#Spirituality #Irrelevant #Spiritual

"We are not separate. Our sense of separateness is superficial and exist only in the physical dimension. In our human element, we are not separate; we’re very much connected. Every other human being is just as precious as we are, and worthy of as much respect and love and consideration. This understanding needs to manifest in our conduct in each moment. This is the part of the Work that will transform you."

--- A. H. Almaas

#Separateness #Moments #Human Beings

"To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything."

--- A. Lee Martinez

#Powerlessness #Pondering #Acknowledge

"Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction."

--- A. Theodore Tuttle

#Action #Fatherhood #Instruction

"There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Alternatives #Reality #Beautiful

"We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment."

--- Aaron Antonovsky

#Change #Life #Manageable

"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."

--- Aaron Burr

#Today #May #Done

"A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't."

--- Aaron Huey

#Thinking #Expensive #Lenses

"I had a tremendous upbringing and foundation but as others like me have experienced, when you go to college, mom and dad are no longer there to help guide. There were some moments in college that really cemented my own convictions and beliefs. It was a real period of growth and maturity in my sanctifying process. I got married in college. That was a tremendous blessing. Four years later, we started having children and that gives you a deeper understanding of the Father's love."

--- Aaron Kampman

#Four Years #Having Children #College

"Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he's a food activist."

--- Aaron Sanchez

#Technique #Flavor #Chef

"Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum."

--- Aaron Swartz

#Real Education #Genuine #Facts

"Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy."

--- Aaron Swartz

#Steadfastness #Humility #Quality

"Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often."

--- Aaron Tveit

#Understanding #Cat

"I put everything in God's hands, asking him to give me strength and understanding. I asked him to help me to be strong for my family and that he would continue to take care of us. One day, shortly after that, I woke up really inspired."

--- Aaron Watson

#Care #Take Care #One Day

"Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort."

--- Abba Eban

#I Have Learned #Futility #Humans

"People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#Theater #People #Made

"[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents."

--- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

#I Believe #Observant #Believe

"Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Clouded #World #Joyfulness

"Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding."

--- Abdul Kalam

#Issues #Common #Resolve

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

--- Abdullah ibn Mubarak

#Preservation #Action #Listening

"When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution."

--- Abdullah Ibrahim

#Resolution #Time And Space #Self

"We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century."

--- Aberjhani

#Grappling #People #War

"When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication."

--- Abigail McCarthy

#People #Friendship #Adults

"The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Understanding #Lying #Worth Living

"Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Lasts #Reality #Explanation

"We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#May #Spread #Air

"Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Responsible #Human Beings #World

"We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#War #Made #God

"I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#I Can #Want #Wife

"If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Book #People #Lawyer

"To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery."

--- Abraham Pais

#Discovery #Science #Understanding

"I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage."

--- Adam Duritz

#People #Connections #Hard

32 "Understanding" Quotes