Beyond Our Understanding Quotes

14 quotes by 11 authors

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try… — Saint Augustine
Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of… — Paul Auster
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition… — Vernor Vinge
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider… — Vernor Vinge
Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our… — Paulo Coelho
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief… — Moby
The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent. — Harvey Diamond
The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic… — William Kittredge
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all… — Dorothy Thompson
Iâ€™m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens… — Paulo Coelho
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond… — Harper Lee
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. — Yasmina Khadra
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand… — Isaac Newton
Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is… — Dorothy Thompson

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