Human Understanding Quotes

44 Human Understanding quotes by 37 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. — Carl Jung
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
I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight. — Margaret Bourke-White
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
We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding. — Vernor Vinge
Mathematics is an art of human understanding. — William Thurston
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
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
The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding. — Martin Luther
To replace the old paradigm of war with a new paradigm of waging peace, we must be pioneers who can push the boundaries of human… — Paul K. Chappell
Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck — Claude C. Hopkins
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding. — John Flavel
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are… — Carl Sagan

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