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“When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.”

“If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you 'Pro' many thingsPro-Peace, Pro-Human, Pro-Evolution, it makes you Pro-Communication, Pro-Diplomacy, Pro-Love, Pro-Understanding, Pro-Forgiveness.”

Ifs Humans Mean Doe War Understanding Sides Communication Evolution Conflict Anti War Diplomacy

Author:Eddie Vedder

“The ultimate test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God, the more theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know about Him but to know Him! The whole object of salvation is to bring me to knowledge of God. If all my knowledge does not lead me to prayer there is something wrong somewhere.”

Ifs Knows Should Doe Whole Understanding Prayer Teaching Objects Amount Tests Ultimate Salvation Theology Knowing God Leading Me Knowledge Of God

Author:Martyn

“Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.”

Mind Mean Doe Real Suffering Causes Enjoy Understanding Cold Becoming Overcoming Contrary Fulfillment Attachment Indifferent Enjoy Life Relaxed

Book:How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)

Source: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)

“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.”

Ifs Way Doe Eye Choices Understanding Failing Subjects Mankind Creation Painting Poet Ears Satisfaction Wide Painter

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.”

Doe Reason Fear Understanding Secret Birth Goodness Life Changing Fearlessness

Author:Guy Finley

“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.”

People Ifs Doe Shows Turns Understanding Born Arms Unions Misery West Communism Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Francois Mitterrand

“Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.”

“Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.”

Doe Art Helping Understanding Loss Mystery Understood Good Art Postmodernism Catchy

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.”

“The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.”

Ifs Persons Doe Book Stories Might Reading Understanding Translate Gifted Guru Books And Reading

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.”

Mean Doe Feelings Action Individual Belief Understanding Views Quality Habit Taste Empathy Appreciation Tolerance Indifferent Affable

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.”

Mean Doe Law Understanding Environment Environmental Operations Laws Of Nature Immune Nature And Environment Save Mother Earth Mean Girls Nature Conservation

Author:David Gerrold

“Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.”

Needs Doe Artist Order Understanding Sitting Not Sure

Author:Sara Genn

“The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved in a prolonged capturing of emerging marginal meanings. He feels that he, too, is creative, that he himself is adding to his experience and understanding. Moreover, he wants to confront the work of art many times. He is not easily tired of it, as he would be had he read a purely logical statement. He realizes that the work of art does not merely transmit information; it produces pleasure.”

Source: Creativity: The Magic Synthesis

“When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.”

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Book:The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

“There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.”

Source: Jane Austen's correspondence and letters: The complete and definitive edition

“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud , also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level man as the being who is human. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a science of man which does not fragmentize man and destroy his humanity at the same moment as it studies him. It unites science and ontology .”

Men Humans Doe Moments Humanity Understanding Sides Levels Study Movement Genius Standing Deeper Analysis Assumption Existential Psychotherapy Ontology

Book:Existence

Source: Existence

“A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.”

Should Doe Games Understanding Player Military Theory Cards Businessman Greedy Thorough Strategist Thorough Understanding

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.”

Needs Doe Facts Found Understanding Principles Special Mathematics Intuition Proof Mathematical Assumption Faculty Infinity Consistency Primal Axioms Completeness Need God

Author:David Hilbert

“Jung Min is SS501's Hitler. When we lived together, we played video games. But we can't turn the sound loud. Not even by one click. Jung Min says we can't have it loud, so we're like “Ok, fine. He's our member, so let's be understanding and turn it down.” We turn it off, but he goes to his room and does karaoke!”

Doe Together Turns Games Understanding Sound Rooms Fine Members Video Loud Clicks Jung Karaoke

Author:Kim Kyu-jong

“Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.”

Men May Doe Reason Feelings Understanding Challenges Crime Shapes Claims Suicide Fortune Species Superiors Combat Heroism Justified True Hero

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.”

Ifs World Doe Whole Understanding Fame Bigger Who You Are Whole World Jerk

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.”

Doe Character Feelings Bigs Individual Understanding Fine Jealousy Generous Reverse

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.”

Men Believe Doe Light Spirit Grows Understanding Dark Opinion Written Lows Angry Neighbor Tempted Disdain Incline Dogmatism Sunbeams

Book:The Improvement of the Mind

Source: The Improvement of the Mind

“And I have learned now to live with it, learned when to expect it, how to outwit it, even how to regard it, when it does come, as more friend than lodger. We have reached a certain understanding, my migraine and I.”

Doe Pain Certain Understanding Regard Illness I Have Learned Migraine

Book:We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

“Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.”

Doe Philosophy Language Understanding Style Punctuation Good Understanding

Author:George Sand

“The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of the advantages of social life, especially in the more advanced forms that we call "civilization" rest on the fact that the individual benefits from more knowledge than he is aware of. It might be said that civilization begins when the individual in the pursuit of his ends can make use of more knowledge than he has himself acquired and when he can transcend the boundaries of his ignorance by profiting from knowledge he does not himself possess.”

“No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.”

Needs Doe Matter Opportunity Understanding Nature Environment Cutting Circumstances Depth Wide Accidents

Author:Mary Webb

“just sitting does not involve reaching some understanding. It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest just as they are, not poking one's head into the workings of the world.”

World Doe Understanding Activity Sitting All Things Reaching Subtle Allowing

Book:The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)

Source: The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)

“What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.”

People Ifs Feels Doe Important Values Understanding Prayer Effort Clear Depends Praying Importance Strive Boredom Abandon Abandoned Consolation Distracted Our Prayers Persevere Fidelity

Author:Sheila Cassidy

“I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.”

Believe Doe I Believe Understanding Decision Situation I Believe In Dialogue Journalism Bridges Gaps Dynamics

Author:Brad Pitt

“I ask two questions when I am confronting life on a moment to moment basis when something important is happening. (1) What is factually happening right now? (2) What does my soul know about this and want me to know about this? It is amazing that when I give myself 20-25 seconds to seriously consider these questions, almost instantly I will arrive at a deeper awareness and a richer understanding of what is happening right now - from the soul's level of awareness.”

Knows Want Giving Doe Two Important Soul Moments Asks Understanding Levels Awareness Right Now Happenings Bases Deeper My Soul Seconds Want Me Confronting

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.”

Children Doe Care Understanding Valuable Assets Capture

Author:Eula Biss

“On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.”

Men Giving Doe Understanding Christ Depends Perception Contrary Doctrine Exception

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)

“Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.”

People Humans Doe Feelings Individual Understanding Moral Human Nature Evolution Mass Intuition Justify Far Away

Book:The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty

Source: The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty

“Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes "good" from "bad" luck.”

Doe Seems Certain Given Understanding Events Shapes Luck Species Our Time Bad Luck Imports Brevity Shape Of Things

Author:Karen Russell

“I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.”

Doe Art Desire Understanding Opinion Study Tests Appreciation Insight

Author:Laurance Rockefeller

“The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural course of events. This is why an explanation via design is not a legitimate alternative to scientific and other naturalistic modes of explanation. To refer to a miraculous cause is to refer to something that is inherently unknowable, and this sanctuary of ignorance explains nothing at all. However much it may soothe the imagination of the ignorant, it does nothing to satisfy the understanding of a rational person.”

Source: Why Atheism?

“So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.”

Mean Doe Able Understanding Loses Talking Broken Research

Author:Will Smith

“A traditionalist can sometimes be looked at as someone who is a fundamentalist, or they can be looked at as someone with a very strict set of understandings of human nature. But a traditionalist in the Vedic tradition, is one who is open-hearted, who does not judge, there's nothing to judge whatsoever, who understands the basic understanding and karma of all of it, and who basically helps when help is called for.”

Humans Doe Sometimes Helping Understanding Human Nature Judging Tradition Karma Strict Hearted Fundamentalist

Author:Maya Tiwari

“Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.”

Knows Men Doe Whole Certain Understanding He Man Eternity Certainty Height Contingency

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had.”

People Persons Doe Stills Two Form Reading Understanding Community Common Novel Approach Rounds Acquire Association Life Time Common Experience

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.”

Men Believe Doe Reason Government Hate Understanding Interest Community Party Rights Mankind Republican Capable Doctrine Appeals Insult Republican Party Offended Governing Outrage Hereditary

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.”

World Wells Doe Lying Understanding Pursuit Protected Beneficial

Author:Edmund Burke

“One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.”

World Mean Doe Understanding Realizing Music History Historical Related Sensations

Book:Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance

Source: Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance

“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

“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 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.”