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Quotes About Understanding

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.
~ Richard Matheson
You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.
~ Seth
Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.
~ Peder Soerensen
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
~ Marc Chagall
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
~ Seneca the Younger
Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
~ William Whewell
I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
~ Albert Einstein
The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
~ Mencius
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
~ John Cowper Powys
Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves
~ George Soros
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.
~ Kimon Nicolaides
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
~ Ai Weiwei
Hugo?' 'Millicent?' 'Is that you?' 'Yes. Is that you?' 'Yes.' Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
~ Claude Monet
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
~ David Hume
The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
~ Baron d'Holbach
Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.
~ Kathleen Raine
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
~ David Hume
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
~ Charles Caleb Colton