Quotes About Understanding

But ... no ... there I go, being vindictive and vengeful myself, wishing harm on others as they have wished it on me. I have to watch that in myself. I have to step on the head of that snake every time it rises. There's always someone to hate. The list of those who have earned our hatred — and spurned our hatred — is endless. Shall we draw up lists of each other's crimes? Must we hate each other for all time?

Gender is important, gender is complicated and gender is meaningful. Know your child and celebrate the kind of girl or boy your child is becoming.

The intense effort to develop artificial intelligence has increased our understanding of neural networks because at its core, AI is but an attempt to improve artificially what the brain already does effortlessly.

Semiotic nudge is more about "Speak, Lord; your servant is listening" than it is "Listen, Lord; your servant is speaking."58

Jesus was best known as a master of metaphor, a legendary storyteller, and a powerful healer who communicated in signs, images, and gestures. Therefore, to understand Jesus and the Scriptures, we need to train ourselves and others not to exegete more words but to exegete images.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe that "Unless I believe, I shall not understand." —ANSELM OF CANTERBURY1

What counts in evangelism is not cognition, but recognition. Can

Truth is both reason and revelation—and both can surprise us.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

If there's no love, what then?

the love of anything is the offspring of knowledge, love being more fervent in proportion as knowledge is more certain. And this certainty springs from a complete knowledge of all parts which united compose the whole of the thing which out to be loved.

For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

i thought i was learning to live but i was learning to die

Most people, if you give them a book, they sniff around on it awhile, then try to eat it.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

E veramente accade che sempre dove manca la ragione suppliscono le grida[...]

There is nothing in all nature without its reason, he wrote. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience.