Sentence examples for humble understanding from inspiring English sources

Gillispie, with no remarks prepared, spoke with humble understanding of the opportunity Hocutt had given him.

The invisible gorilla just might teach us to be more humble, understanding and forgiving.

This was not meant as a criticism but as a humble understanding of having the responsibility that comes with raising children".

It appears as though a new day has dawned with a spurious sense of certainty being replaced by a more humble understanding of human behavior as it relates to child-rearing.

Yet we still resist a humble understanding.

But since I was this granny I am a humble, understanding person and I don't want anybody to feel any pain".

The old white men holding culture back will all be dead soon enough; will the next generations of males have a better, humbler understanding of the world and their place in it?

For now, neurobiologists hope to use the device, described this week at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, for a humbler purpose: understanding how nerve cells grow and communicate with each other.

"We have to be a little humble about our understanding about what's going on in Iran," said R. Nicholas Burns, who was a State Department under secretary for President Bush.

And it involves immersing oneself in music written by other people, most of them long dead, so one's ego needs to be held in balance with the more humble demands of understanding someone else's work – not unlike being an actor, except that what is written on the operatic page has such extreme technical demands.

In particular, it would have been nice if insurer A.I.G. had been a bit more humble about its understanding of the risks facing the housing market before it went ahead and wrote tens of billions in insurance on mortgage-backed securities, tens of billions that effectively ended up sinking the firm and forcing it into the arms of the government.