Understanding Quotes

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Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them,… — John Calvin
She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of… — Tom Perrotta
So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you… — Vincent de Paul
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such… — Timothy Keller
The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy, for their bound… — Francis Howgill
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the… — Iain Pears
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding… — Regis Debray
If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world. — Nhat Hanh
The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that… — William Thurston
The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and… — Albert Einstein
The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician,… — Alexander Grothendieck
It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps… — Michael Atiyah
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real. — Richard P. Feynman
Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of… — Isaac Newton
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
The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one… — Oscar Wilde
All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which… — Kimon Nicolaides
What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention. — Richard L. Evans

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