Understandable Quotes
154 quotes by 146 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.
— Robert Greenberg
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Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and…
— Galileo Galilei
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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
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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
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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.
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I’ve always said to my agents and stuff, like, it’s going to be 10 years before people forget about Twilight, And that’s totally understandable. Normally…
— Robert Pattinson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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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