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“The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.”

Art Understanding Generations Skills Degrees Perception Mere Cinema Visuals Rapids Younger Generation Cinematic Visual Images

Author:Johan Huizinga

“The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.”

Men God Government Understanding Imagination Common Imagine Creatures Raised Beast Faculty Covenant

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.”

“I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.”

Children Littles Book School Remember Young Understanding Education Remember When Grammar Always Learning Grammar School

Book:The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth

Source: The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth

“Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .”

Soul Hands Understanding Practice Labor Filled Inspired Medical Observation Be Inspired Knitting Weaving

Author:Maimonides

“Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.”

Men Firsts Facts Understanding Differences Animal Latter

Author:Theophrastus

“Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.”

“Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.”

“The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.”

“When the shingles hissed in the rain incendiary, other values were revealed to us”

War Values Understanding Perception Rain Shingles

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement”

Firsts Understanding Goal Conversation Agreement

Author:Danny Silk

“From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.”

World Children Play Problem Understanding Gains Concern Children Playing

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others.”

Thinking Way Wells Children Persons Helping Problem Understanding Situation Opinion Intelligent Guides Rely Do The Best Raising Children Child Rearing Intelligent Person

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.”

Needs Wells Children Ideas Feelings Certain Values Wish Parent Understanding Results Situation Produce Particular Ought Behavior Flow Relation Our Children Method Predictable

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.”

Art Three Actors Understanding Acting Essence Contemplating Phases

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.”

Mind Doe Art Enjoy Understanding Taste Concerned Appreciate Former Latter

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.”

Thinking Knows Giving Care Asks Understanding Answers Education Decades

Author:Richard Bach

“One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.”

Way Years Different Problem Moving Used Reading Language Given Understanding Deals Photography Difficulty Impact Seven Chinese Pounds Epic Influential Different Languages Fluent

Author:Richard Misrach

“One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be.”

Life May Spirituality Understanding Interaction

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.”

May Science Understanding Mathematics Celebrate

Author:Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

“Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.”

Seems Science Understanding My Own Mathematics Blindness Lack Of Understanding

Book:On Certainty

Source: On Certainty

“The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished.”

Matter Christian Individual Understanding Religious Court

Book:Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring

Source: Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring

“Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.”

Self Christian Spiritual Understanding Religious Horror Prejudice Deception Realms Self Deception Amazement Journalistic Lack Of Understanding Anti Christian

Author:Marvin Olasky

“One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.”

World Way Humans Made Time Understanding Change Ability Changed Standards Dues Saving Made It Clock Zone Savings Daylight Telegraph Time Zones Saving Time Daylight Savings

Author:James Gleick

“No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.”

Joy Understanding Lines Grief Imagine Imagine That Parallels

Author:Franz Schubert

“[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.”

Understanding Intellectual

Author:Ann Richards

“In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.”

“So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.”

People Knows Children Doe Past Young Understanding Education Knowing Greater Information Variety Gaps Exposed Sophisticated Experience And Learning Knowing And Understanding

Author:David Elkind

“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.”

“The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.”

Understanding Honest Inquiry Oaks Matured Acorns

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“my belonging to relief society has renewed, strengthened, and committed me to be a better wife and mother and daughter of God. my heart has been enlarged with gospel understanding and with love of the Savior and what He's done for me. so to you, dear sisters, i say: come to relief society! it will fill your homes with love and charity; it will nurture and strengthen you and your families. your home needs your righteous heart.”

“Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.”

“Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.”

Self Understanding My Own Education Objects Worship Vanity Inclination

Book:The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

“The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.”

May Understanding Black Race Dangerous Racism Concepts Aspect Notion Folks Insight African American Racist Overwhelming Scholarship Validity Sexist

Author:Bell Hooks

“Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.”

Should Littles Desire Understanding Faculty Credible Destitute

Author:Pope Paul III

“Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance of the formalism and by a generous admixture of common sense, as well as a thorough understanding both of the basic concepts and of the technical details of the formal material used. It should not be supposed that the formalism can grind out philosophical results in a manner beyond the capacity of ordinary philosophical reasoning. There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy.”

“Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.”

Wells Children Parent Understanding All Things

Book:Childhood's Future

Source: Childhood's Future

“Realization is more important than understanding”

Important Understanding Realization

Author:John de Ruiter

“The more that you're knowing, the more you will be feeling and seeing, the more that you will hurt in your heart, and in your self. Deep heart understanding replaces your need and your holding of personal truths.”

Needs Heart Self Feelings Understanding Hurt Knowing Seeing Deep Heart Personal Truth

Author:John de Ruiter

“Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.”

Art Made Two Together Law Understanding Identity Color Prove Thirds Vices Contentment Gray Dread Proven Adultery Mockery Prove It Desolate Merging

Author:Alexander Theroux

“Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.”

Giving Form Understanding Imagination Capable Illness Characteristics Heredity

Author:Alfred Binet

“Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.”

Way Spirit Understanding Imagination Morning Glory Our Time Manifest Goddess Introduction Pagan Enriching Morning Glory

Author:Elinor Gadon

“I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.”

Thinking Whole Understanding Careers Perspective Producers Mentality Buyers Good Understanding

Author:Nina Jacobson

“Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior. If we know men, then we know all of humankind. These prevalent cultural attitudes totally deny the uniqueness of the female experience, limiting the development of girls and women and depriving a needy world of the gifts, talents, and resources our daughters have to offer.”

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.”

“Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.”

Children Character Problem Understanding Communication Development Discipline Behavior Acceptable Problem Solving Emphasis Child Development

Author:Ellen Galinsky

“Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.”

Humans Understanding Growth Human Beings Pleasure Seeing Childhood Perspective Profound Oneself Satisfaction Caring Parenthood New Perspective

Book:The Six Stages of Parenthood

Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood

“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to his ego. The ego is a persona, a mask created and demanded by everyday social interaction, and, as such, it constitutes the center of our conscious life, our understanding of ourselves through the eyes of others. The Self, on the other hand, is our true center, our awareness of ourselves without outside interference, and it is developed by bringing the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds into harmony.”

“There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.”

World Understanding Doors Mystery Internals Mastery Understanding Others

Author:Tian Dayton

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