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Quotes About Understanding

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.
~ Fran Lebowitz
He who understands nature walks close with God.
~ Edgar Cayce
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
~ Benjamin Lee Whorf
If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.
~ Dainin Katagiri
Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
~ Baruch Spinoza
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
~ John Muir
Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
~ Richard Dawkins
Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.
~ Hal Borland
If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.
~ Christian Friedrich Hebbel
As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
~ Maggie Q
The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.
~ David Hawkins
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
~ Francis Bacon
I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
~ Albert Einstein
Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.
~ William Shakespeare
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
~ Niels Bohr
To understand the nature of love — that is to be a Christian!
~ Rudolf Steiner
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
~ Harold Bloom
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
~ Henri Rousseau
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
~ Charles Darwin
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
~ Ruth Rendell