Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated. — David A. Cooper Copy Share Image
Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Personal credibility has everything to do with how others perceive us and how we perceive ourselves. Sandy Allgeier’s book teaches the all-important… — Michele Borba Copy Share Image
To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother… — Alex Trebek Copy Share Image
My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind. — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are. — Bradley Horowitz Copy Share Image
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by… — Ernest Starling Copy Share Image
Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as… — Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale Copy Share Image
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Never become a slave to your own thinking and your own self. Understand that you are continuously changing. But, in which way… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
my belonging to relief society has renewed, strengthened, and committed me to be a better wife and mother and daughter of God.… — Bonnie D. Parkin Copy Share Image
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. — Vera Kistiakowsky Copy Share Image
Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another… — Rob Dyrdek Copy Share Image
All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Kids under, I'd say, 14 are still maturing; they are still growing. They are still understanding themselves. To hit them with something… — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image