Quotes by Understanding A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth. William Hazlitt understandingairfeelings When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift. William J. Clinton understandinggodscience Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted. William Jennings Bryan understandingmeanfacts I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism. William J. Clinton understandingwartravel Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best. William Kent Krueger understandingevilwish The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. William Kentridge ruptureunderstandingworld Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. William Hazlitt understandingwisdomheart In what we really understand, we reason but little. William Hazlitt understandingreasonlittles To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. William James abnormalphilosophicalunderstanding Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding. William Lane Craig understandingtoolshelping My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding. William Maxwell understandingauthorityfather What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will? William Matthews progressunderstandingsteps To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist. William McDonough designunderstandingmean The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read. William Monahan understandingreadingtrying It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are. William P. Young understandingreligiousexpectations O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. William Penn understandingwisdomwise At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox. William Poundstone paradoxableunderstanding It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy. William Raspberry understandingmistakemath You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that. William Scranton judgmentunderstandingneeds The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably. William Saroyan misunderstoodunderstandingsaid«177178179180181182183184185186187»
