Human Understanding Quotes

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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
But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding... — George Berkeley
I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the Frontiers of Human… — Dave Barry
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding. — Peter Ackroyd
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of… — Francis Bacon
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And… — Francis Bacon
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do… — Anna Deavere Smith
I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection,… — Criss Jami
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion… — Francis Bacon
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is… — Norman Mailer
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently… — Boris Pasternak
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand... — Soren Kierkegaard
I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we may succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and… — Dalai Lama
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not… — Margaret Atwood
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of… — David Hume
Some things are beyond human understanding. — Alexandra Adornetto

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