Understanding Quotes

5353 Understanding quotes by 3113 unique authors

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight. — Margaret Bourke-White
The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis… — Ken Ham
The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond… — Alan Watts
If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the… — Dalai Lama
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just… — Primo Levi
I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same… — Elle Macpherson
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon
It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be… — David Hurn
It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil,… — George Matthew Adams
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession. — Baltasar Gracian
At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole,… — Fritjof Capra
This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.... — John Ashcroft
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Weâ€™re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding. — Vernor Vinge
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition… — Vernor Vinge
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider… — Vernor Vinge
The fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer… — Edward R. Murrow
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time. — Diane Ravitch
Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down,… — Jayne Ann Krentz
Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding. — Carolyn Porco

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