Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
Despite an unqualified understanding that U.S. national security was inextricably bound up with Britain's survival, F.D.R. knew that his reelection in part rested on the hope that he would keep the country out of war.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.
The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and when my heart suffers from that same offense, I can turn to him, and he understands my feelings.
From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.
