Famous Quotes & Sayings

Soren Kierkegaard

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

Marcus Aurelius

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

Marc Chagall

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

Sidney Hook

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Tony Robbins

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

Thucydides

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

Robert A. Heinlein

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.

Reggie Watts

Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.

Robert Boyle

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

Tom Brown, Jr.

There are paths and ruts in the spirit world as there are in the physical and mental world. One must take the tools of the spirit world and make one's own path rather than exactly follow the paths of those who once were . . . You must not seek their path and their understanding, but you must seek your own. The ruts of the spirit are trying to follow others and it cannot be done.

Tamora Pierce

Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.

Roy Spencer

Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.

Rosanne Cash

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

Ron Suskind

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

Tony Hoare

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

Stephen Covey

You can't live principals you can't understand.

Steven Weinberg

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

Richard Neal

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

Tariq Ramadan

If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don't understand the objective.

T. S. Eliot

If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

Susan Sontag

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

Susan Sontag

Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

Susan Sontag

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Scott Adams

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

Julian Barnes

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Kevin Kelly

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

Kevin Hart

I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.

Kenzaburo Oe

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Saul Perlmutter

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising

Saul Griffith

We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

Liam Neeson

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.