Quotes by Understanding Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is. Georg C. Lichtenberg understandingdiscoverymen We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. Georg C. Lichtenberg 50th-birthdayunderstandingage Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred. George Armitage Miller understandingheard On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait. George A. Sheehan understandingwaitingrunning Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. George C. Williams lastsunderstandingattitude But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding. George Berkeley understandingmistakemath I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part of its peoples. Great single endeavors like a League of Nations, a United Nations, and undertakings of that character, are of great importance and in fact absolutely necessary, but they must be treated as steps toward the desired end. George C. Marshall understandingleaguecharacter If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants Friedrich Nietzsche understandingwishwant In every trial Let understanding fight for you. Gautama Buddha buddhistfightingunderstanding Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it. Georg C. Lichtenberg positionunderstandingtoday My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used. George Deukmejian pesticidesusedunderstanding Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. George Etherege mistressnextunderstanding Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization. George Edward Woodberry understandingmencivilization Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling the private enterprise system as we know it. George F. Kennan russiaunderstandingmind Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts, is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects. George Crabbe fancyunderstandingreflection Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense. George Friedman understandingselfprofound Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. George Gaylord Simpson understandingfiretree To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity. George Gissing testsunderstandingcapacity In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. George Grosz understandingmilitarymen The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. George Lakoff understandingkindessence«5354555657585960616263»
