Quotes About Understanding

Indeed, men who have either quaffed or even tasted the liberal arts penetrate with their aid far more deeply into the secrets of the divine wisdom." - John Calvin

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War 1. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry, which requires more than 10 bits of information to understand. Carl Sagan

lack of firm knowledge rarely equates with complete ignorance.

We must look at the price system as . . . a mechanism for communicating information if we want to understand its real function," Hayek

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

Everybody "thinks" - Homo sapiens means "thinking man" - but most people don't "think" very well.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

Christians must outlove, outjoy, outthink, and always welcome those who opposed them.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

Poetry is man's best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.

We do not tell God who he is and what he is like; he tells us.

One is denying the revelation of God in Jesus Christ if one tries to be "Christian" without seeing and recognizing the world in Christ.34

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.