We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck. — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its… — John Walford Copy Share Image
“in all the reading which you have ever read, did you ever read such a book as Locke’s Essay upon the Human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other.… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“she lived her life as a dragon and never understood those who didn’t. Why anyone would want to be human was beyond… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
“The eye of the human understanding is not a naked organ of perception (lumen siccum), but an eye imbued with moisture by… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet… — John Gorrie Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“If God exists, and I truly don’t believe he does, he will know that there are limits to human understanding. He was… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“If the human mind can understand the universe, it means the human mind is fundamentally of the same order as the divine… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
“We've surpassed ourselves now, we're exploring terrain beyond the limits of merely human understanding. Sometimes its contours, even in conventional space, are… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.” — T.Z. Lavine Copy Share Image
I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us. — Thomas Hirschhorn Copy Share Image
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“If the unit of human understanding is the story, the story at least in this part of the world includes the cow.” — James Maskalyk Copy Share Image
I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight. — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Our souls speak a language that is beyond human understanding. A connection so rare the universe won't let us part.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“... solutions are always possible, and the limits of the truth far exceed the limits of human understanding.” — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
