Effort Quote by Stephen Batchelor

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.

— Yo-Yo Ma

As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by…

— Lewis Thomas

The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences on a…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant…

— Anonymous

Our world is so bursting-full of natural wonder that we are all experiencing a sensory overload. We are no longer perceiving all of Ú…

— Vera Nazarian

Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.

— Josh Gates

“We have no means of understanding a fraction of the thought and science and philosophy and law that have gone to make that outside…

— V.S. Naipaul

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the…

— Walter Lippmann

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

— Rainer Maria Rilke