Quotes About Understanding

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The eye that sees is not a mere physical organ but a means of perception conditioned by the tradition in which its possessor has been reared.    ââ'¬â€RUTH BENEDICT

I AM CONVINCED I am convinced That if all mankind Could only gather together In one circle Arms on each other's shoulders And dance, laugh and cry together Then much of the tension and burden of life Would fall away In the knowledge that We are all children Needing and wanting Each other's Comfort and Understanding We are all children Searching for love

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

I might get to know something about myself that millions of others know better than I. If I could only see myself as others see me.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed).

there is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God's view to us.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed). The fact beats ceaselessly into my brain these

what he is to the inscrutable God is what matters.

There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.

I would guess that there are limits to what we can understand. But old people always think there are limits to what we can understand. It's the young people who push past those limits.

Quantum mechanics can be appreciated, to some degree, on a purely qualitative level. But mathematics is what brings its beauty into sharp focus. We have tried to make this amazing body of work fully accessible to mathematically literate nonphysicists.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Therefore O students study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.