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Understanding Quotes

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - Atticus Finch and daughter Scout

“First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

– Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 3. Atticus Finch’s advice to daughter Scout, after she comes home from school upset and angry that her teacher Miss Caroline wants her to stop reading at home. This is one of the most famous quotes in the novel. Atticus is saying we should not judge a person unless we go through the same situation.

His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. His hands, large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer.

– John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men, Chapter 2. Describing Slim, the most respected man on the ranch. He listened carefully to people and understood. A man of deep wisdom, he is able to look beyond the obvious, probes deeply into a situation and is an excellent judge of people. Not surprising then that the men look up to him and depend on him for support and guidence.

As a white man, I cannot claim perfect understanding of the fear and anger that African Americans feel today. But as someone who has been around for a while, I know enough – and I’ve seen enough – to understand that those feelings are real and that they are all too painfully founded.

– Mike Mullen

Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person’s soul.

– John O’Donohue

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.

I’d be delighted to offer any advice I have on understanding women. When I have some, I’ll let you know.

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘In Theory’.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

– George C. Williams

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what’s behind it.

– Henry Mintzberg

Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.

– Henry Eyring

As parents, we’re human beings, too, but sometimes we’re not as understanding as we’d like to be.

– Gregory Hines

There’s so much written about the Titanic, and it’s hard to separate what’s fact and what’s fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

– Henry Petroski

When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences, or music, that somebody’s been exposed to. But that’s an individual thing; there’s no sort of universal understanding of what jazz is.

– Gerald Clayton

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

– Harold Evans

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

– G. Gordon Liddy

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

– Henry Rollins

I have a background and an understanding of what’s happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don’t have, because there’s been no interest.

– Helen Thomas

Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

– Gever Tulley

Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that’s how they survived.

– Grace Lee Boggs

We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

– Jamie Redknapp

My understanding, from what I’ve learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he’s the older guy with the mustache who relates with our hero in a certain way.

– J. K. Simmons

As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve.

– Jennifer Doudna

My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.

– Jamie Dornan

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

– J. Michael Straczynski

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

– Jeremy Bentham

Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements.

– Judith Butler

I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.

– Jenson Button

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.

– Jerry Saltz

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

– Immanuel Kant

Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

– James Thurber

Understanding how Cas9 is able to locate specific 20-base-pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long may enable improvements to gene targeting and genome editing efforts in bacteria and other types of cells.

– Jennifer Doudna

Unless we understand a certain material – metal or resin and plastic – understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example – we can never develop and define form that’s appropriate.

– Jonathan Ive

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