True Understanding Quotes

• here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering".

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• We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Believe, Men

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• True understanding is the spur of genius

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Understanding, Mentor, Spurs

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• People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Perspective, Understanding

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• If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

  Bodhidharma

  Reality, Opposites, Understanding

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• True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Choices, Understanding

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• When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

  Bodhidharma

  Understanding, Mind, Vision

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.55, Macmillan

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• We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

  Dalai Lama

  Understanding, Desire, Want

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• No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Men, Temptation

  John Bunyan, George Barrell Cheever (1850). “The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come,: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country”, p.89

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• After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn in theory only.

  Koichi Tohei

  Understanding, Principles, Body

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• If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Humble, Understanding, Desire

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• There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Understanding, Chemistry, Physics

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2012

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• From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent; from the standpoint of the student of development and heredity the fact of recapitulation is a difficult problem whose solution would perhaps give the key to a true understanding of the real nature of heredity.

  E.S. Russell

  Nature, Real, Science

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• Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.

  Peter Senge

  Learning, Knowledge, Unique

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• He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.

  Origen

  Spiritual, Understanding, Mind

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Lying, Keys, Ideas

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of many tools He has at His disposal. If I cannot act - if I refuse to act - that is a choice I am allowed to make. He has given me life, and all I must do to serve Him is to live. Fully and with my whole heart. With this knowledge comes a true understanding of all the gifts He has given me.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Heart, Choices, Understanding

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• When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

  Stephen Kanner

  Design, Understanding, Architecture

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• A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.

  Kevin Baggett

  Understanding, Missionary, Tasks

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• What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.

  Matsuo Basho

  Self, Understanding, Mind

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• These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

  Gish Jen

  Ideas, Understanding, May

  "Interview with Gish Jen: Tiger Writer". Interview With Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. December 1, 2013.

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• What is preaching? Logic on fire! Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire. A true understanding and experience of the Truth must lead to this. I say again that a man who can speak about these things dispassionately has no right whatsoever to be in a pulpit; and should never be allowed to enter one.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Fire, Understanding

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.

  Lester Bangs

  Understanding, May, Reign

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.306, Anchor

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• In all things that you find in the Holy Scriptures, seek out the purpose of the words, that you may enter into the depth of the thoughts of the saints and understand them with greater exactness. Do not approach the reading of the Divine Scriptures without prayer and asking the help of God. Consider prayer to be the key to the true understanding of that which is said in the Holy Scriptures.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhist, Understanding, Sorrow

  "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice".

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