Knowing And Understanding Quotes Page 2

Part 2 of the knowing and understanding quotations list about wilfully and intentionally sayings citing Billy Graham, Ian Mckellen and Tommy Lee Jones captions

  • Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

    — Billy Graham
    69
  • Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live.

    There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

    — Ian Mckellen
    65
  • Let me explain something you already know.

    I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

    — Tommy Lee Jones
    65
  • Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand.

    — Paula Scher
    64
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  • We know that the white man does not understand our ways.

    One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

    — Chief Seattle
    63

  • I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

    — Kurt Vonnegut
    59
  • Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

    — R. A. Torrey
    59
  • With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

    — Galileo Galilei
    59
  • Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

    — Charles Bukowski
    59
  • Creating Lovemarks is all about the ability to understand consumers’ dreams, to know what they want and when they want it and to create great experiences that make your brand a part of their lives.

    — Kevin Roberts
    58

  • The future, for me, is romantic, I don’t understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don’t know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.

    — Raf Simons
    58
  • The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

    — James Weldon Johnson
    56
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  • This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

    — John Steinbeck
    56
  • It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

    — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
    55
  • How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

    — Orhan Pamuk
    55

  • I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone were to adopt this, I really believe we can cut health care costs by seventy to eighty percent. That's amazing. And it all comes from understanding nutrition, applying nutrition, and just watching the results.

    — T. Colin Campbell
    54
  • I know in my heart the dream will be realized.

    I choose to believe. And choosing is a powerful thing. It's available to you at every moment. You can choose understanding over anger, believing over nonbelieving, action over inaction. It gives meaning to every choice we make.

    — Yolanda King
    54
  • The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.

    — Tony Blair
    53
  • The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite.

    However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.

    — Paul Washer
    52
  • You don’t read, you don’t understand.

    You don’t know what it’s like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world.

    — Atticus Shaffer
    52

  • enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them.

    — Emily Carr
    50
  • When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

    — John Milton
    50
  • I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

    — Coco Chanel
    50
  • In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

    — Sandra Oh
    49
  • I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything.

    Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

    — Giada De Laurentiis
    49

  • Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere.

    We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.

    — Lauren Kate
    49
  • I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

    — Clarice Lispector
    49
  • You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.

    — Lowell Bergman
    48
  • If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

    — Hazel Henderson
    48
  • How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

    — Frances Hodgson Burnett
    48

  • Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

    — Ravi Zacharias
    46
  • And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.

    — John Elder Robison
    46
  • It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

    — Henry Miller
    46
  • Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.

    — Ajahn Chah
    44
  • Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

    — Donna Leon
    43

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