Quotes about understandings (15 Quotes)



    This is the meeting in which the relationship between the two will be defined, in which any understandings that they will reach on the future of their joint efforts in the peace process will be determined.

    Universities by their very nature encourage debate, question and challenge of conventional wisdom and existing theories. We are places where knowledge is discovered. We advance existing precepts and understandings by which society currently runs. And in that context, academic staff will time to time have views that are different from the government's.

    Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.

    Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.


    Our minds being now enlightened, we began to have the Scripture laid open to our understandings, and the true meaning and intention of the more mysterious passages revealed unto us in a manner which we never could attain to previously . . .

    We have grandparents, live-in lovers, step-parents, persons that are not even biologically related to children that are raising them. We need to have some understandings as to what standards we are going to use to determine which rights they have.


    There appears to be a tremendous void in the business in thinking beyond the constraints of directed search. The industry is focused on things like behavioral advertising and the impact of next generation ad models. It appears in that process we're leaving behind the cumulative information and the cumulative understandings that can be achieved by pulling the entire knowledge base together.

    I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

    Well we had a good conversation about a week ago, and I'm sure we'll be having good conversations in the future. ... I'd like to have some further understandings with him, and I'm sure we'll reach those in the days and weeks ahead.



    When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

    Everything had to be debated up, down and sideways. People were good, they came to understandings and agreements. But it was all done on a wing and a prayer and negotiations. In an emergency ... there may be circumstances where you can't have debate for days on end.



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