Understanding Quotes - Page 72

I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that the sciences don't, such as the intrinsic nature of causation or the dynamic character of temporal experience.

There’s a reason why players that have multiple championships have multiple championships. There’s a certain characteristic and an understanding and knowledge and that’s not something that’s easily taught. You kind of have to go through it and it kind of has to be part of your DNA from the beginning.

It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

If you were following the [Barack] Obama campaign back then, closely, you could see it had become very close to banking interests. So I think you can't properly understand Hillary Clinton's foreign policy without understanding Saudi Arabia.

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us.

If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what business principles actually are and how they actually work.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.