Atheism Quote by Karen Armstrong

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“Intellectual understanding and rational knowledge are by nature spiritual obstructions caused by arbitrary confirmation and denial...The essence of intellectual understanding and rational knowledge originates…

— Shang Yang-tzu

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

— Yehudi Menuhin

Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about…

— Jean Shinoda Bolen

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison…

— Immanuel Kant

What is the essence of life without the full knowledge of how to live life?

— Zaharadeen

The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as…

— Martin Heidegger

The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all…

— Donald Woods Winnicott

The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose…

— Thomas Chalmers

“Created meaning is a less rational way to live life than doing so with discovered meaning.”

— Timothy J. Keller

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington