Degrees Quote by Francis Bacon

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

— Francis Bacon

Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relations mean order.

— Richard Weaver

Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

— Richard Saul Wurman

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

— Raymond Holliwell

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

— Nancy Pearcey

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

— Robert Delaunay

Everything in life is in perfect order whether you understand it yet or not. It just takes some time to connect all the dots.

— Melchor Lim

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

— Jerome Bruner

“The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it requires art…

— John Locke

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

— Anonymous