Quotes by Understanding You can only possess beauty through understanding it. John Ruskin understanding I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human. John Trudell understandinginspirationallife One major difference between Mormons and evangelicals on the subject of revelation is that Latter-day Saints believe that God has appointed modern-day prophets and apostles to receive revelation for Christ's church. All church members may receive revelation appropriate for their particular callings or positions within the church and their families, but never in contradiction to church doctrine or policy. So Mormonism has both a democratic practice of revelation that would resonate with evangelicals, but also an institutional understanding of revelation foreign to evangelicalism. John Turner understandingchurchbelieve His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. John Steinbeck speechunderstandingears The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it John Stuart Mill understandingrealspiritual Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed. John Tillotson understandingwisdomtwo More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. John W. Vessey, Jr. misunderstoodlanguageunderstanding It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results. John Templeton emotionchanceunderstanding Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. John von Neumann understandingsimplescience It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe. John von Neumann effortunderstandingrunning No one should be rich except those who understand it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe richwealthunderstanding To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding. John Woolman mankindunderstandingdarkness Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power. John Wyndham fuelunderstandingneeds Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences. John Green understandingreadingpeople Actually we're not hearing a lot about gas prices right now from constituents. And I think that reflects a growing understanding on the part of the public, that there really is very little that the government and politicians can do. John Yarmuth governmentunderstandingthinking When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. John Woolman understandingstrongmen If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding. John Stuart Mill understandingintellectualreligious Cause even grown men need understanding. John Wayne understandingmenneeds To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman. John Stuart Mill one-womanunderstanding The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things. John Ruskin weaknessunderstandingchoices«8485868788899091929394»
