Quotes About Understanding

De dónde provienen las palabras, que mi mano conoce y yo ignoro?

I lay down beside her and there we stayed for a long time, kissing and caressing each other as we had never done before. It was as if both of us knew at each moment exactly the kind of caress that the other needed or desired.

But all knowledge is conveyed to us by the senses: they are our masters:

Knowledge begins through them and is

resolved into them.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.

Wissenschaft ist Macht.

conciencia quiere decir conocer con otros.

The problem, however, is obvious: we all operate on limited information based on where we stand relative to the challenges we face. As a result, we rarely see the whole picture, relying instead on just our own bias and restricted point of view. Going

The key to team wins is for everyone in each position to understand what the other positions are doing and why they're doing it." If teams don't collaborate effectively across functional boundaries, they lose.

I'm going to work at a place I love, in an industry I love being involved in because of the challenge and excitement. Live it, breathe it, understand it, research it, study it. Learn every day.

Always solicit and strive to understand perspectives other than your own.

But suddenly, Pentunia spied the Book. The firecrackers had blown it open so that the pages showed. She had never seen them before. Now she saw that there was something written inside the Book which she could not read. So she sat down and thought and thought and thought, until at last she sighed, 'Now I understand. It was not enough to carry wisdom under my wing. I must put it in my mind and in my heart. And to do that I must learn to read.

Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

If God's love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially from Jesus Christ), then the term is simply meaningless when attached to God. One might as well say "God is creech-creech"—a meaningless assertion.

An irenic approach to expounding Christian beliefs is one that attempts always to understand opposing viewpoints before disagreeing, and when it is necessary to disagree does so respectfully and in love. An irenic approach to doctrine seeks common ground and values unity within diversity and diversity within unity. An irenic approach does not imply relativism or disregard for truth, but it does seek to live by the motto "in essentials unity,

simplicity without oversimplification.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.