Understanding Quotes

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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results… — Karl Popper
Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;… — Karl Popper
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
You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do… — David Lloyd-Jones
Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe… — Laozi
As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a… — Albert Einstein
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment,… — Ernest Starling
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human… — Irving Langmuir
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating… — Aristotle
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment,… — Walter Savage Landor
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. — Jacob Bronowski
But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he… — Thomas Jefferson
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
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of… — Martin Luther
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try… — Saint Augustine
Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard… — Richard P. Feynman
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual — Jeremy Bentham
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. — Carl Jung
...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that… — Johannes Kepler
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles… — David Hume

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