Understanding

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.
Richard Neal
Power
Understanding
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
Alva Myrdal
Men
State
Understanding
The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
Charles Munch
Life
Sun
Understanding
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison
People
Contempt
Understanding
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
Errol Morris
Errors
Examination
Understanding
World
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody
Faith
Religion
Children
Christ
Devil
Understanding
Words
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne
Conscience
Labor
Memory
Understanding
This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.
Marc Forne Molne
Now
Principles
Understanding
Will
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills
History
Life
Society
Understanding
The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
Kelly Miller
War
Progress
Results
Understanding
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
Moses Mendelssohn
Nothing
Sight
Understanding
My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.
Simon van der Meer
People
Interest
Understanding
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
James Meade
Work
Knowledge
Understanding
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Marshall McLuhan
Experience
Behavior
Understanding
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhan
Luxury
Understanding