quotations about understanding
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
Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
"Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote", The Garden of Forking Paths
To acquire wisdom is to love oneself; people who cherish understanding will prosper.
BIBLE
Proverbs 19:8
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
JOHN LOCKE
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
If the right path of human understanding is followed, then we will have heaven on earth.
EMANUEL SCHIKANEDER
The Magic Flute
Understanding is the reward of faith.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
To trace the unfamiliar to the familiar ... is to understand.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
"The Damned", Incredible Adventures
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
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
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
Do not seek the because -- in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
ANAÏS NIN
Henry and June
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
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 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
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
Be it assembling a model airplane, baking a cake or choosing flowers and shrubs for the garden, reading and understanding is necessary to achieve success. Most people would think that nothing could be simpler than reading the picture tag slipped in the side of a pot at a garden center's display, but without understanding, simple instructions can lead to failure.
LEEANN BARTON
"In the Garden: Understanding Labels", Stillwater News Press, April 23, 2017