Quotes About Understanding

No science of religion (history, psychology, or sociology of religion) understands the reality of religion. Science can know and understand religions without the investigator's belonging to or having faith in any of them. Real faith is not knowable.

felsefe yapmak ölmeyi öÄŸrenmektir.

Beszélni valamirÅ'l annyi, mint értelmezni azt.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

la même importance que la loi de la transformation de l'énergie pour les sciences naturelles, lui fournit ici également la clé pour la compréhension de l'histoire de la deuxième République française.

Thus does the beginner, who has acquired a new language, keep on translating it back into his own mother tongue; only then has he grasped the spirit of the new language and is able freely to express himself therewith when he moves in it without recollections of the old, and has forgotten in its use his own hereditary tongue.

Some examples for you: 'Mi wantem' is 'I would like'. 'Mi wantem' sounds like 'Me want them', which equals 'I would like'. 'Bitwin' is 'between'. 'Bisnis' is 'business'. By now you've probably got the hang of it, so I don't have to tell you what 'Gud moning' means. If you're still struggling you're a 'dik ed'.

The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about the nature of the self. Grasping at the mistaken perceptions of oneself and other phenomena leads to constant frustrations, anxieties, and unhappiness. Understanding the illusory nature of the self allows one to experience things 'as they are,' without interference from conceptual constructs.

If we're happy, to be happy together. If we're are sad, to be sad together. To always know the other is there for us. The best of friends... and so much more.

The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense.

Dear God. When did language and meaning divorce each other and decide to go their separate ways?

She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again not love, more like the feelings you would have for a favorite dog (and, no, she would never have said such a thing to him. Some people, a lot of people, didn't understand how attached one could be to a dog.)

words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.