#understanding

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#also #back #carter #communicate #convey

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed! ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#behold #changed #happened #heart #joy

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future. ↗

— Henry Taube

#basic #benefits #continue #depend #future

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#sword #truth #understanding #your

When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#hope #hopelessness #inspirational #jonathan-anthony-burkett #life

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. ↗

— James Tobin

#could #does #each #growing #growing up

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#biggest #confidence #conscience #control #critic

If you know the why, you can live any how. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#understanding #art

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now this clear- eyed, fine-headed youth, who looked something like a student to her, made fun of it. It was poor to him, not worth reading. She looked down, and for the first time felt the pain of not understanding. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#book #understanding #youth #art

Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence. "There is much I don't understand." "That will never change," Mortis said decisively. "Except that what you don't understand will change. ↗

— John Barnes

#prince-amatus #understanding #change