Quotes About Understanding

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God. Take away that reason, and he would be incapable of understanding anything; and, in this case, it would be just as consistent to read even the book called the Bible to a horse as to a man. How, then, is it that those people pretend to reject reason?

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly;

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher; the reason of which is, that principles, being of a distinct quality to circumstances, cannot be impressed upon the memory; their place of mental residence is the understanding, and they are never so lasting as when they begin by conception.

Ä°nsan, Tanr?'y? ak?l yürütme yoluyla keÅŸfedebilir.

Tanr?'n?n ne oldu?unu bilmek istiyor muyuz? Bunu herhangi bir insan?n yazabilece?i yaz?l? kitaplarda arama, ama Yarat?l??'?n imzas?nda ara.

Nations, like individuals, who have long been enemies, without knowing each other, or knowing why, become better friends when they discover the errors and impositions under which they had acted.

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant. The mind, in discovering truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand might make, but the scripture called the Creation.

Gerçek din bilimsel bilgimizin kayna??d?r; bu bilgiden de tüm sanatlar türemiÅŸtir.

Her türlü yanl??a kar?? en amans?z silah Ak?l'd?r.

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found in any other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.

Tüm kâinat? düzenleyen ve yöneten ilkeler gibi her bilimin de sabit ve deÄŸiÅŸtirilemez ilkeleri vard?r. Ä°nsan bu ilkeleri yapamaz ancak onlar? keÅŸfedebilir.

In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand might make, but the Scripture called the Creation.

They didn't speak, only touched and kissed, feeling the understanding that they loved each other deeply and permanently—that for him, she was the one woman who would stand in his life for all women, and in her life, he would stand for all men.

I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation.

She didn't have enough patience to try to explain to Christine the proper way to think about money. Among the old people, a person's status had never been determined by how much wealth he could accumulate, but how much he brought back to give away.

Knowledge management is a great oxymoron.

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Why should things be easy to understand?

primary purpose of this book is to explore the connection between knowledge, science, and belief in God.

We believe with all our hearts that it is possible to disagree passionately with people, even to see their views as wrong and harmful, and still love them.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Every man feels that he must believe what he distinctly remembers, though he can give no other reason of his belief, but that he remembers the thing distinctly.