Quotes by Understanding Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen. Terry Pratchett erraticunderstandingpast Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable. Thomas Kuhn dataunderstandingscience We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything. Thomas Kuhn understandingnaturescience Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled. Thomas Hobbes flamespassionunderstanding You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line. Thomas P.M. Barnett linesunderstandingpeople If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it. Thomas Nagel understandingsuccessfulmind Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and carried it out over 225 years. You experience the challenges, successes, and foibles. Over time, the Foreign Service evolved into a professional cadre serving the public and presidents, often at the peril of their lives. Anyone interested in understanding our diplomacy, what makes it tick, and how it strives to serve the public interest should read this masterful history. Thomas R. Pickering understandingeyeyears For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At that point the photo is almost made, and all that remains is the mechanical process. Thomas Struth understandingcitiespeople Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding Thomas Willis understandinganimalfall Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. Thomas Carlyle understandingimaginationmatter Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. Thomas Yellowtail sacredunderstandingcivilization No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. Thomas Carlyle toleranceunderstandingsympathy Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs. Thomas Szasz rolesunderstandingpeople It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are. Thomas Merton understandingkeysenemy When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. Thornton Wilder aliveunderstandinghappiness Knowledge without understanding is useless. Thucydides uselessunderstanding How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness. Thomas S. Monson understandingcompassionkindness There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others. Tian Dayton masteryunderstandingdoors Through a lot of scientific and left-hemisphere thinking in the last 400 years, we've separated ourselves from nature, as if we were superior. We were looking at nature as a resource that we could manipulate. I think we're coming to a new understanding that it's just impossible. We are nature. We can't remove ourselves. We need to think more interdependently. Tiffany Shlain understandingimpossiblethinking A lot of humanists treat religion as if it were simply a kind of rival cosmological hypothesis, and that this is all it is. My view is that to the extent that religions are cosmological hypotheses, this is not the only important thing about them, and we - atheists- will never get a proper understanding of what religion is if we focus too much on the cosmology. 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