Understandable Quotes

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If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma… — Dalai Lama
I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of… — Antony Hewish
We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes… — Herman Bavinck
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable… — Bobby Knight
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,… — Alfred Adler
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons… — William R. Brody
On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's… — Fernando Pessoa
The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable. — Robert Greenberg
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and… — Galileo Galilei
To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and… — Eric Alterman
If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for… — Maxine Waters
The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief, the choice is,… — Ron Currie Jr.
Iâ€™ve always said to my agents and stuff, like, itâ€™s going to be 10 years before people forget about Twilight, And thatâ€™s totally understandable. Normally… — Robert Pattinson
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this… — Gene Weingarten
The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system… — Jim Knight
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.… — William James
I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act — Jurgen Habermas
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. — Emile M. Cioran
It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings… — Neal A. Maxwell

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