Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“We had so much to say to each other, like we’d been quiet our whole lives until we met. It was as… — Kimberly Novosel Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship.… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand. — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human… — David Dark Copy Share Image
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot from counseling and talking about the mistakes that I've made; I've understood why I made them. — Farrah Abraham Copy Share Image
It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood… — James Randi Copy Share Image
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney.… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back. — Joan Van Ark Copy Share Image
I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
