Quotes by Understanding An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. Ovid medicineunderstandingfear I enjoy trying to figure out a way to deal with machines - they become like little buddies or something. It's almost the same way you might develop a relationship with a dog - maybe that's weird to say - but there becomes an understanding you reach after a while. Panda Bear understandingdogtrying Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? Pablo Picasso understandingartistsympathy What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. Pablo Picasso poorunderstandingwish I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate. Oscar Wilde spheresunderstandingart Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about. Paramahansa Yogananda individualityunderstandingorder I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say. Pat Metheny understandingknowingthinking The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness. Paramahansa Yogananda cosmosunderstandinglaw If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed- Patricia A. McKillip understandingnamesfear Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind. Patricia Churchland understandingmindbrain Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive. Patricia Churchland progressunderstandingknowing Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart. Patricia Highsmith understandingheartlong The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability. Patrick Dixon sustainabilityunderstandingkeys They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier. Oscar Wilde understandingwiselooks Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to seduce you into understanding. I am trying to teach you." He leaned forward until his face was almost touching mine. "Quit grabbing at my tits. Patrick Rothfuss touchingunderstandingsleep Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding. Patrick Rothfuss confusingunderstandingway Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding. Paul Auster effortunderstandingworld All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior. Paul Broun understandingsciencelying The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind. Paul Brunton understandingwisdomself God is raising up a new standard, a new banner if you will, that's going to radically change the expression, the understanding of Christianity in our generation. Paul Cain our-generationunderstandingexpression«128129130131132133134135136137138»
