Quotes by Understanding I think the biggest thing that motivates me when I'm choosing a part is a role that will help me continue to grow as a person and as an artist, and a role that will deepen my understanding of humanity, and my connection to it. Forest Whitaker understandingartistthinking Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. Fran Lebowitz tolerancehuman-natureunderstanding A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use. Frances Osborne understandingordinarybook Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding. Frances Wright admittinglike-youunderstanding The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. Francis Bacon understandingorderworld The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy, for their bound is set, and their limit known; but mind the Seed, which hath dominion over all. And forsake not the assembling of yourselves together in which you have found God and his promise and power and blessing amongst you, your understanding opened. Francis Howgill understandingblessingpromise The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. Francis Bacon subtletyunderstandingnature Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself. Francis Crick understandinglifescience The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. Francis Bacon supportopinionunderstanding The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. Francis Bacon statisticsunderstandingchoices No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed. Francis Bacon understandingscienceknowledge Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things. Francis Bacon understandinglawscience Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt. Francis Quarles frostunderstandingchildren Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. But people with more understanding realize that their presuppositions should be chosen after a careful consideration of what world-view is true. Francis Schaeffer understandingchildrenpeople Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union. Francois Mitterrand unionsunderstandingpeople Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. Francois de La Rochefoucauld understandinggracemind Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. Francois de La Rochefoucauld atheismunderstandingmind A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth. Francis of Assisi understandingchildrenpromise The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered. Francis Bacon universeunderstandinglimits There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion. Francis Schaeffer uglyunderstandingcompassion«4748495051525354555657»
