Quotes about understanding
understanding obstacles language
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language Christopher Dawson
understanding well-dressed wells
It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding. Christian Dior
understanding nerd details
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature. Chris Hardwick
understanding way world
When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. George Steiner
understanding gone world
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. Friedrich Nietzsche
understanding ifs knows
If you know the why, you can live any how.
understanding wish want
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
understanding way grasping
Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related. Jerome Bruner
understanding band done
So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all. Jello Biafra
understanding doubt abjection
Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding Jean-Paul Sartre
understanding littles fossils
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. Georges Cuvier
understanding way preoccupation
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations. Jean Renoir
understanding tools molecules
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. Jerry Garcia
understanding principles spirit
Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. Jeremy Collier
understanding compassionate
Be more loving, compassionate and understanding with ourselves, with others, and with the planet, because we are all connected. We are one. Gisele Bundchen
understanding culture made
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. Haldan Keffer Hartline
understanding-god our-world body
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best. Gene Robinson
understanding mistress next
Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. George Etherege
understanding fiction literature
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. Fay Weldon
understanding limits universe
The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered. Francis Bacon
understanding
Experience precedes understanding. Jean Piaget
understanding mountain
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding. Dogen
understanding intellectual doe
Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief. Orson Scott Card
understanding
don't have a real understanding of HBO's business. Chris Albrecht
understanding world tools
Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works. Michael Shermer
understanding ease flow
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
understanding scratches said
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding. Nicolas Chamfort
understanding compromise married
Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it. Nicole Kidman
understanding dabs pieces
We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone Shane Koyczan
understanding important instant-replay
Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened. Seth Godin
understanding lucky sake
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake. Maeve Binchy
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.