Quotes About Understanding

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I'm very open, I love music and I love people so you need to know what's going on.

We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.