Complete Understanding Quotes

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn't think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I'd like to think comes from the years of attention we've put into this.

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

I want people to become more comfortable with deeper looks at the things that they love. It doesn't mean that you have to stop loving them, it just means that you have a more complete understanding of them.

In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

The leaders must be tortured fiercely in order that we may obtain a complete understanding of their organization.

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.