Quotes About Understanding

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye...

If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expressed But negatives, my love is so. To all which all love, I say no. If any who deciphers best What we know not, ourselves, can know Let him teach me that nothing.

Every woman is a science; for he that plods upon a woman all his life long, shall at length finde himself short of the knowledge of her.

Give me tender and supple and conformable affections, that as I joy with them that joy, and mourn with them that mourn, so I may fear with them that fear.

He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Who think too little, and who talk too much.

She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offense:Sex to the last.

How can finite grasp infinity

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.

Judi, a person's worth isn't measured by her utility. We're not tools. We're here to think. To feel. To be good to each other

Understanding is not about progress; its about process. What we may finally come to understand is that we won't,can't,understand and that incomprehension is essential to our existance. Mystery is our maker.

You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life.

There is a risk to avoid in popular science. This is the atmosphere of unquestioned authority; the scientist explains, the reader learns. Science, though, is always provisional, not a final truth, and the adventure lies in the process, the struggle for understanding. When science is explained, the things that are explained are ideas and the observations on which those ideas are based. Ideas develop; ideas should always be questioned. In science as in life, the one sure thing is change.

We must first have an intellectual understanding of the love of God, and then we must earnestly pray that the Holy Spirit will allow us to have a deep, fulfilling experience of his love.

It is that sequence of first knowing and then experiencing, that will allow us to treasure God's love.3

The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.

Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels.

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.