Understanding Quotes

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Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas,… — Joseph Addison
The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom… — Frederick Osborn
We've had a wonderful, wonderful life together. We've been in many places, we've had the experiences, and now we have the memories. But most of… — David B. Haight
In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them… — Anthony Hope
UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature… — Ambrose Bierce
He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase… — Alfred the Great
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do… — Richard P. Feynman
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. — Socrates
Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding. — Edsger Dijkstra
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition… — Tony Hoare
There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If… — Leslie Lamport
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and… — Gerald Jay Sussman
Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely… — Chungliang Al Huang
A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle… — Lee Smolin
...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding… — Barack Obama
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are… — Kenny Smith
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not… — Zhuangzi

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