I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask… — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world. — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
“..the pursuit of knowledge is never for naught. Each line drawn on a map gets us closer to understanding the world and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I just want my kids to grow up to become good men and that starts with understanding the world around them. That's… — Travis Browne Copy Share Image
The day I was born, I knew I was going to act! Okay, that can sound a bit exaggerated, but I knew… — Sunny Singh Copy Share Image
Every time another tribe becomes extinct and their language dies, another way of life and another way of understanding the world disappears… — Stephen Corry Copy Share Image
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I follow many tragedies around the world. At one point I [will] feel like I've accumulated an enormous amount of information, a… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well… — Alan Briskin Copy Share Image
“The feeling of not being understood and of not understanding the world is no mere accompaniment of first passion, but its sole… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm frequently asked, "Do you believe there's extraterrestrial intelligence?" I give the standard arguments- there are a lot of places out there,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“As your prospective of the world increases, not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“And I wished I could believe him. I wished with all that I had. And when you're eleven, you're on the cusp… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
“There is a secret a person with great knowledge discovers along the path to truth. That is, the more doors you open… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“No parent should have to bury a child ... No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“A few years back, I had a long session with a psychiatrist who was conducting a study on post-traumatic stress disorder and… — Janine Di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? — Pope Julius III Copy Share Image
“My mom thought having a child was going to be like having a partner, but every child is born the center of… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
It may be true in the case of autism that if you start off with a deficit in terms of empathy or… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
Falling in love was a tough until life challenged me to fall out of love. Asking meaningful question was tough until life… — Shirley Copy Share Image
![“I follow many tragedies around the world. At one point I [will] feel like I've accumulated an enormous amount of information, a critical mass amount of information, and I feel like acting - reacting. My manifesto has always been the same: I cannot act in the world before understanding the world. I…” quote by Alfredo Jaar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/003/alfredo-jaar-30663_acting_i-follow-many-tragedies-around-the-world_71254.jpg)
