Quotes About Understanding

One of Mom's favorite passages from Gilead was: "This is an important thing, which I have told many people, and which my father told me, and which his father told him. When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Results for "Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.

As the psychologist Professor Brian Little writes, 'All individuals are essentially scientists erecting and testing their hypotheses about the world and revising them in the light of their experience.

is a 'story processor', writes the psychologist Professor Jonathan Haidt, 'not a logic processor'.

If our so-called understanding of animals does not ignite within us a loving urge to allow them to fulfill their lives and purposes, to honor, respect and appreciate them, then it is not true understanding. Our science is in many ways incapable of this authentic understanding, and, because it is also often a vehicle of corporate power, it is best not to rely on it too heavily in our quest for wisdom or healing.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Affection is the environment of the marriage, while sex is an event. Affection is a way of life, a canopy that covers and protects a marriage. It's a direct and convincing expression of care that gives the event of sex a more appropriate context. Most women need affection before sex means much to them.

Do you usually have a good feeling whenever you think about ______? Would you rather be with _______ than anyone else? Do you enjoy telling ______ your deepest feelings and most private experiences? Do you feel a "chemistry" between you and _______? Does _______ bring out the best in you?

Wetenschap is de titanische poging van het menselijk intellect zich uit zijn kosmische isolement te verlossen door te begrijpen

Je bent hier namelijk in de donkere kamer. Maar nergens ter wereld komt zoveel aan het licht als in een donkere kamer.

Je zou een tweede hoofd moeten hebben om te begrijpen wat dat éne hoofd is, maar ik heb er maar een, hier is het in mijn handen, ik houd het vast op een manier waarop een mens nooit iets anders vasthoudt.

Een verschrikkelijke haat tegen leerboeken komt vlaagsgewijze over mij. staan niet in leerboeken de dingen beschreven alsof iedereen altijd geweten heeft dat ze zo waren? Niets blijft er in een leerboek over van de moeite, de twijfel en de wanhoop die bestaan hebben voor een bepaalde conclusie was bereikt.

theology requires metaphors and concepts that come from our understanding of nature and therefore from science.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.