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Understanding Quotes - Page 90

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

"Of Human Accomplishment". The New Criterion, www.denisdutton.com. February, 2004.

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.

David Hume (1826). “The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author”, p.518

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume (1826). “And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion”, p.530

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

"Poetry as Enchantment". 20th anniversary issue of The Dark Horse, www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com. Summer 2015.

We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others

Curtis Sittenfeld (2012). “American Wife”, p.110, Random House