Understanding Quotes - Page 31

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and again to the historical sciences, in order to obtain an understanding for the more highly developed metal processes.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.

Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding

Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to include the belief that new things can be discovered, that newer can be better, and that greater depth of understanding is achievable. Research, especially academic research, is a form of optimism about the human condition.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. But people with more understanding realize that their presuppositions should be chosen after a careful consideration of what world-view is true.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.