#understanding

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#become #individual #individual men #industry #men

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#makes #totally #understanding #very

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#artist #content #creates #distillation #experience

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood. ↗

— George Takei

#certainly #country #family #father #flesh

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#civilization #firmly #gain #good #had

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. ↗

— Vicki Baum

#art #beings #between #demands #greatest

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#greatest #greatest obstacle #international #language #obstacle

The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future. ↗

— Aly Khan

#america #aspirations #council #doing #future

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#being #consciousness #depends #encountering #everything

My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#day #done #ever #every #every day