Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Even for most of the GOP's old-school legislators, there is dawning understanding that opposition to freedom to marry is on the wrong… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
The Brazilian national identity is not one of João Gilberto Noll primary concerns. This does not mean social critique is absent: race,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, no one ever said to me, "You cannot do math because you're a girl." But, there was… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better,… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The growth of our understanding of the world through science weakens some of the motivation which makes people believers. But that's not… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Think about it. Politics is just a name for the way we get things done ... without fighting. We dicker and compromise… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
When I moved to the offensive line in college, it was a big awakening of setting yourself aside a little bit and… — Jason Kelce Copy Share Image
Sometimes being understanding is more important than being right... Sometimes we need not a brilliant mind that speaks but a patient heart… — Regina Malabago Copy Share Image
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and… — Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Copy Share Image
Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as… — Jay Kay Copy Share Image
A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
Our assumption is that God has not revealed all there is to know in the spiritual area any more than he has… — Charles H. Kraft Copy Share Image
“The calling that has been thrust upon you is likewise as demanding and daunting. I understand how you feel, believe me. But… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
It is the great destiny of human science, not to ease man's labors or prolong his life, noble as those ends may… — Paul Sears Copy Share Image
Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
When humans understand Tao, we understand the Tao within ourselves, not the true Tao. Tao doesn't belong to any one or any… — Henry Chang Copy Share Image
There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
My mom was adopted and didn't know much about her heritage growing up. She became more successful, she started understanding more and… — Jessica Pegula Copy Share Image
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I am entirely well,” said Eldric, “which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
