Understanding is a two-way street.
We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
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.
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. They share and deal with that sense of risk every day, so I got to see that up close.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.