Quotes about understanding
understanding world may
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used. Polykarp Kusch
understanding trying littles
I've been trying to catch up to it. Just trying to get with it, feel behind it a little bit, but that's good actually, probably. That way, I'm still sort of understanding it. Justin Vernon
understanding deceit elements
The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of deceit in selling the photographs as such Julie Burchill
understanding world ascent
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. Jacob Bronowski
understanding brain wire
You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks. Louise Erdrich
understanding brain damage
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself. Susan Boyle
understanding body behavior
There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of. Sufjan Stevens
understanding tables matter
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry... Primo Levi
understanding tolerance anarchy
Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding. Terry Goodkind
understanding atmosphere trying
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education. Terence McKenna
understanding psychedelic should
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
understanding perception
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. Robert Delaunay
understanding actors directors
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong. Robert De Niro
understanding world truth-is
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God’s and everything in it... Rob Bell
understanding asking skepticism
This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?" Michel de Montaigne
understanding may way
Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.
understanding mind
We must not attach knowledge to the mind; we have to incorporate it there.
understanding pesticides used
My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used. George Deukmejian
understanding facts obstacles
Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding. Mortimer Adler
understanding agree disagree
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
understanding firsts steps
As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it. Peter Drucker
understanding one-woman
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman. John Stuart Mill
understanding mind hiv
Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind. Nate Mendel
understanding forgotten
We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it. Nancy Willard
understanding far-away
I felt like I was standing in a deep valley looking at a far away Himalayan peak. I can see now this was more my own projection for my understanding since is: The master is only as far away as you are from yourself. Milarepa
understanding age too-late
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. Milan Kundera
understanding doubt gold
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant. Joseph Addison
understanding sensitivity ready
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
understanding language
You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language? Jorge Luis Borges
understanding together world
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. Jonathan Swift
understanding therapy
There is no better therapy than understanding. Jimmy Piersall
understanding brutes distinguished
We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding. John Flavel
understanding mystery infinite
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.