Quotes by Understanding Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences, never understanding the connection between outer and inner phenomena or interdependent phenomena, looking for explanations only from objects through nihilist habit instead of from the subjective experience of their own minds. Thinley Norbu understandingmindthinking It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. For a person's merits are not to be estimated by having many visions, or by knowledge of the bible, or by being placed in a higher position; but by being grounded in true humility, and by seeking always, purely, and entirely, the honor of God. Thomas a Kempis understandinghumilityhonor Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee. Thomas Aquinas faithfulnessunderstandingmay If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. Thomas a Kempis understandinghumbledesire Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds. Thomas a Kempis understandingselfmind Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time. Thomas Aquinas understandingdoemen The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors. Thomas B. Macaulay understandingpoetrymean The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create. Thomas Cole tenacitydiscriminationunderstanding The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. Thomas de Quincey facultyunderstandingmind There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. Thomas Browne understandinggivingorder It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors. Terry Pratchett editorsunderstandingthinking All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding. Thomas a Kempis understandingcomfortsweet There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. Thomas de Quincey understandingliteraturemoving I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do. Terry Pratchett voiceunderstandingthinking I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. Theodore Roosevelt wealthunderstandingpeople For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it Thomas Aquinas understandingprinciplesway I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them. Thomas Harris serial-killerunderstandingsheep I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us. Thomas Hirschhorn understandingbelieveart We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. Thomas Friedman understandingpeoplethinking Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. Thomas Hobbes philosophicalspeechunderstanding«165166167168169170171172173174175»
