Quotes About Understanding

lifers" who had been around long enough to understand the game with some perspective

science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.

That is to say, when the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books

science and religion are often attempting to tell the same story in two different languages.

Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage … an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.

Any life-form advanced enough to travel light-years through interstellar space would have nothing to learn by probing the rectums of farmers in Kansas.

don't believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect—" "—intended us to forgo their use?

God of the Gaps.' That is to say, when the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.

It's prophetic, really. Today, man's most advanced inventions are being used to study man's most ancient ideas. The science of Noetics may be new, but it's actually the oldest science on earth—the study of human thought." She turned to him now, her eyes filled with wonder. "And we're learning that the ancients actually understood thought more profoundly than we do today.

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? WHY YOUR FIVE-YEAR-OLD COULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT HOW TO SURVIVE MODERN ART

the devout can always benefit from listening to nonbelievers. It is in hearing the voice of the devil that we can better appreciate the voice of God.

Genius accepts genius unconditionally. -Anonymous

I don't believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect—" "—intended us to forgo their use?

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. The rising and setting of the sun was once attributed to Helios and a flaming chariot. Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon. Science has now proven those gods to be false idols. Soon all Gods will be proven to be false idols.

La scienza mi dice che dev'esserci un Dio. La mente mi dice che Dio non lo comprenderò mai. Il cuore mi dice che non ci si aspetta che io lo comprenda.

Langdon decided not to say another word all evening. Sophie Neveu was clearly a hell of a lot smarter than he was.

De ergste vorm van eenzaamheid is het isolement waarin je belandt als niemand je begrijpt

BOTH READ THE BIBLE DAY AND NIGHT, BUT THOU READ BLACK WHERE I READ WHITE.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand. There are those who create... and those who tear down.

Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage . . . an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.

permit ignorance is to empower

Sciences tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

La fe es universal. Son nuestros métodos específicos para comprenderla los que son arbitrarios. Hay personas que rezan a Jesús, otras que van a La Meca, y las hay que estudian partículas subatómicas. Sin embargo, al final lo que hacemos todos es buscar la verdad, aquello que es más grande que todos nosotros.