Human Understanding Quotes
44 quotes by 37 authors
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The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.
— Carl Sagan
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If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is…
— Ted Koppel
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things…
— Francis Bacon
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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then…
— Francis Bacon
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew…
— Benjamin Rush
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I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it…
— Julia Cameron
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I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS…
— Anthony Perkins
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The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of…
— John Gorrie
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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like…
— Truman Capote
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Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am…
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.
— Carl Jung
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Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of…
— John A. Lejeune
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I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
— Margaret Bourke-White
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It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil,…
— George Matthew Adams
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
— Vernor Vinge
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Mathematics is an art of human understanding.
— William Thurston
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in…
— John Walford
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