Quotes About Understanding

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

In metaphor we say what we mean, but we don't mean what we say. In analogy we mean what we say, but we don't know what we mean.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Science is organised knowledge.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

Conversion is not the source of truth, but the source of certainty with regard to the truth.

The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.

religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth;

faith, which forms its positive side is at the same time cognitio and fiducia, a trustful knowledge and a knowing trust.

We do not see God as he is in himself. We behold him in his works. We name him according to the manner in which he has revealed himself in his works. To see God face to face is for us impossible, at least here on earth. If, nevertheless, God wills that we should know him, he must needs descend to the level of the creature. He must needs accommodate himself to our limited, finite, human consciousness.

If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.

Het is beter om de dingen niet te weten zonder dat je ze kent.

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.