“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
How can we give if there is nothing there?... Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
“One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as,… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
In the age of social media, you have the selfie and some people - not always young people - seem obsessed with… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
We always go back to that base, and that base is so important. It's like an energetic womb where you can begin.… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds;… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following… — James Keller Copy Share Image
Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally the new immunology was… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
Understanding Meronian - my own language - is a psychic process which succeeds when we break through the boundaries of comprehension and… — Jussi Lehtisalo Copy Share Image
Part of understanding the notion of Justice is to recognize the disproportions among which we live...it takes an awful lot of living… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange… — Warren Weaver Copy Share Image
I think the president, very simply, has never read a copy of the Constitution. I think that that's true. He's just never… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
Work is rich. It can be looked at psychologically or philosophically or personally. The interpretive nature of work is different than the… — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
There's crucial distinction that has to be drawn between the Shari'a, which is this hugely expansive vision of cosmic order that I've… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those… — William Hazlitt 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
Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Long before they had ever met, I think this destiny awaited them. They were not like ships passing in the night. It… — Gen Urobuchi Copy Share Image
Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Enormous cumulus clouds float above the plateau in the shape of turtles. Always turtles. The are moving so slowly, almost imperceptibly, makes… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
