quotations about understanding
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Choke
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
journal, 1847
We all feel that religious understanding is crucial in a multiracial country, and the way to achieving that is to practise moderation. Everybody has different ways of thinking. We cannot and should not force others to think like we do, we must respect the differences, understand and accept each other to achieve social harmony.
A. HEMADASA
"Getting set for Wesak", The Star Online, May 8, 2017
If the right path of human understanding is followed, then we will have heaven on earth.
EMANUEL SCHIKANEDER
The Magic Flute
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
JOHN LOCKE
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Understanding is the reward of faith.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Quiet American
A Jedi gains power through understanding and a Sith gains understanding through power.
PALPATINE
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
When understanding is analyzed as an ability to make counterfactual inferences in the contexts of manipulation, prediction, and explanation, its relation to knowledge can be clarified. Understanding is only knowledge about the relations of dependence, not something mysterious added to knowledge.
PETRI YLIKOSKI
"The Illusion of Depth of Understanding in Science", Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
BIBLE
Philippians 4:7
To trace the unfamiliar to the familiar ... is to understand.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
"The Damned", Incredible Adventures
Do not seek the because -- in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
ANAÏS NIN
Henry and June
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The gap between scientific consensus and public understanding is tricky. For one thing, it's among the reasons we can't muster a sustained global effort to combat climate change. And it turns out, the gap can't be closed with more facts. Culture and past experience shape our worldviews more than objective evidence. The phenomenon is called "cultural cognition," and it's why a full third of people doubt humans have evolved over time despite the 98 per cent of scientists who agree on evolution.
MARC & CRAIG KIELBURGER
"Global Voices: Close gap between science, public understanding", Times Colonist, April 16, 2017
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
FRANCIS BACON
Novum Organum
The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object.
JOHN LOCKE
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
What you understand no longer matters.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"Trompe L'oeil"
One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
journal, August 1, 1835
Could ... dogmatical reasoners become sensible of the strange infirmities of human understanding, even in its most perfect state, and when most accurate and cautious in its determinations; such a reflection would naturally inspire them with more modesty and reserve, and diminish their fond opinion of themselves, and their prejudice against antagonists.
DAVID HUME
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Cry out for insight and understanding. Search for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure.
BIBLE
Proverbs 2:3-4