Quotes about understand
understanding 50th-birthday age
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. Georg C. Lichtenberg
understanding today position
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
understanding admitting like-you
Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding. Frances Wright
understanding tolerance human-nature
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. Fran Lebowitz
understanding facts reason
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason. G. Gordon Liddy
understanding intellectual brain
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe. Jason Silva
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You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.
understanding world
Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding. Guy Finley
understanding arise
Understanding arises through making Giambattista Vico
understanding literature depth
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. Helen Keller
understanding getting-older looking-forward
When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. Cate Blanchett
understanding moral claims
It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us. Judith Butler
understanding seems concepts
The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless. Steven Weinberg
understanding lines lightning
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning. Richard Neal
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 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 way facts
There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision. Henry Petroski
understanding important our-lives
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives. Helen Mirren
understanding today delay
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus
understanding doe teach
Learning many things does not teach understanding
understanding may matter
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth. Henry Ward Beecher
understanding eras source
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. Reggie Watts
understanding littles philosopher
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. Robert Boyle
understanding trying tools
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. Tom Brown, Jr.
understanding challenges intellectual
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges. Nicholas A. Christakis
understanding misunderstood language
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. John W. Vessey, Jr.
understanding emotion chance
It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results. John Templeton
understanding-love be-kind travels-with-charley
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. John Steinbeck
understanding ears speech
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.