Quotes about understanding
understanding may opponents
Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and of modern science are both needed to reach a full understanding of human nature and the conditions of human satisfaction. The ancients may have known little about biology, chemistry, physics, but many were good psychologists. Jonathan Haidt
understanding contradiction deeper
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding. Edward Teller
understanding brain kind
If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right? Edward Boyden
understanding next poet
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
understanding impossible capable
If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him. John Dewey
understanding bending restless
This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding, ... John Carroll
understanding majesty splendor
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor. John Calvin
understanding attention belief
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. Johann Georg Hamann
understanding favour flaws
I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have. Joe Klein
understanding suffering would-be
Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst. Joe Hill
understanding democracy said
This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy. James Patterson
understanding fields expanding
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
understanding way trust-in-god
Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust. James Macdonald
understanding tea firsts
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat. Joan Didion
understanding mind exit
A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge. Jim Woodring
understanding life-is human-life
I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is. John Lennon
understanding looks way
Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own. Jim Rohn
understanding shapes goodness
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding. Emanuel Swedenborg
understanding saying-yes way
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding. Elizabeth Gilbert
understanding conflict
Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace. Lester B. Pearson
understanding may reign
Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates. Lester Bangs
understanding important exploration
Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not. Lawrence M. Krauss
understanding evidence lack-of-understanding
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.
understanding mystery overrated
Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated. Larry McMurtry
understanding lines different
There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different. Leon Uris
understanding mind mythology
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. Joseph Campbell
understanding benefits facts
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results are not reliable or that the discrepancies which are asserted to exist between the experimental results and the theory are only apparent and that they will disappear with the advance of our understanding. If you insist on strict proof (or strict disproof) in the empirical sciences, you will never benefit from experience, and never learn from it how wrong you are. Karl Popper
understanding
Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding. Julie Garwood
understanding action
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action. Lois McMaster Bujold
understanding stills behinds
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another. Lyndon B. Johnson
understanding looks sometimes
When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do. Malcolm Forbes
understanding opinion philosopher
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. Maimonides
understanding force used
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. Mahatma Gandhi