Quotes about understand
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.
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 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 needs world
Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love. Pope Francis
understanding gains sometimes
Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding. Peter Mullan
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 aging increase
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging. Plutarch
understanding want able
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
understanding obedience
Obedience completes itself in understanding. Phillips Brooks
understanding true-understanding exposed
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish. Philip Yancey
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 hearing trust-in-god
It isn't necessary to trust God when we have full understanding and knowledge of what He is doing on our behalf... Trust is needed in those times when, for whatever reason, we are not hearing from God as clearly as we would like. Joyce Meyer
understanding links feels
It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood. Paul Tournier
understanding mind first-impression
For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind Paul Klee
understanding worship devotion
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God. Meher Baba
understanding looks metaphor
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. Mary Catherine Bateson
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 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 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 luck doe
Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck. Karen Russell
understanding faculty wells
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties. Joseph Glanvill
understanding prejudice firsts
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.