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“My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.”

Men Humans Use Mother Effort Human Nature Understood Vices Saved Protest Foolishness

Author:Nikola Tesla

“In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.”

Thinking Doe Whole Understanding Elements Understood Increase Expanding Reducing Systems Thinking

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“...for me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood .... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God”

Way Long I Can Play Prayer Creation Offers Messages Understood Thank God Impressed New Music

Author:Albert Ayler

“Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.”

Needs Beautiful Order Force Justice Understood Errors Defined Falsehood Beautiful Words Truth And Justice

Book:The Amethyst Ring: Works by France

Source: The Amethyst Ring: Works by France

“We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”

Thinking Feels Writing Littles Sometimes Speak Grows Bits Heard Mets Little Bit Expectations Understood Sells Expected Comparison Pale

Author:Lawrence Clark Powell

“Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.”

“Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.”

States Understood Originals Sensual Appeals Significance Patents

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?”

Knows Men World Trying Littles Real Shows Remember Film Guy Black White Singing Understood Frank Tenderness Black And White Show Me Real Men

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.”

Should Made Done Understood Should Have Math Engineering Rigs

Author:Jamie Hyneman

“The biggest mistake you can make in trying to talk convincingly is to put your highest priority on expressing your ideas and feelings. What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. The moment people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.”

People Want Trying Ideas Moments Feelings Views Mistake Highest Understood Point Of View Priorities Motivated Biggest Mistake

Author:David D. Burns

“Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.”

Way Doe Seems Understood Neighbor Scripture God Love

Author:Saint Augustine

“God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.”

Ifs Needs Book Whole Character Form Understood Ultimate Scripture Related Significance Passages Scope Theological

Author:J. I. Packer

“The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.”

Men World Humans Use Order Language Natural Perfect Common Speech Models Understood Currents Greek Biblical Composition Sovereignty Human Experience Saying No Hebrew Natural Order

Author:J. I. Packer

“The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.”

World Book Simple Wise This World Fool Understood Hearted Plain And Simple

Author:Martin Luther

“All presidents but Jefferson have argued that their first job was to keep us safe. All presidents but Jefferson were wrong. If you read the Constitution, you will see that the President's first job - as Jefferson understood well - is to keep us free.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Jobs President Safe Understood Constitution

Author:Andrew Napolitano

“The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.”

Principles Behavior Understood Governing

Book:Principles of Systems: Text and Workbook

Source: Principles of Systems: Text and Workbook

“The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.”

People Want Important Exercise Understood Tyranny Phenomenon Submit Thesis Allowance

Author:Jean Francois Revel

“Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.”

Long Real Country Growth Term Economy Economic Produce Computer Models Understood Investment Fixed Long Term Goods Drivers Assets Economic Growth Hype Slick Financiers Capital Investment

Author:Richard Karn

“Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget.”

“[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.”

Ifs Force Numbers Military Duty Arms Understood Europe Soldier Command Obedience Formidable Military Force

Book:The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'”

Said Film Millions Understood Pounds Mum

Author:Michael Caine

“I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.”

Thinking Levels Emotional Understood Cellular

Author:Rebecca Hall

“I always say about that movie [ Brokeback mountain], which I think maybe over time is more understood, is that this is about two people desperately looking for love. To be loved. And who were probably capable of it. And they just found it with someone of the same sex.that does not dismiss the fact that it is about, really, primarily, the first kind of very profound gay love story. Hopefully it can create an equality of an idea: that is, it's possible that you can find love anywhere.”

People Thinking Firsts Kind Doe Two Ideas Facts Stories Found Sex Gay Mountain Capable Understood Profound Love Story Hopefully Finding Love Looking For Love Brokeback Mountain Gay Love

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I don't think I had any idea at the time how to work with someone as masterful as he is. And I don't think at the time I really understood what was happening. I think I was in a space where I was like: there are all these things. I was shooting all these takes with David, and I was just confused, as a person, and as an actor feeling a little too big for my britches and that this thing was happening and then also not having enough skill yet, and technique to know exactly where I was, and know about the character.”

Thinking Knows Littles Persons Ideas Enough Character Feelings Bigs Actors Space Skills Happenings Understood Technique Shooting Confused

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.”

Humans Reality Values Force Powerful Rights Behavior Understood Transformation Human Rights Defined Manifestation Spontaneous Norm

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.”

Understood Organisms Observing Colony Comprehending

Author:John Steinbeck

“The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.”

Way Should Trying Ideas Different Real Process Design Objects Computer Models Understood Decided Apples Description Networking Beef Hardware Operating Systems Personal Computers Cache Mainframe

Author:Alan Kay

“He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).”

Humans Government Church Depends Exercise Understood Kingdoms Resurrection Peter Transcendent Participants

Author:Dallas Willard

“Christianity, righty understood, is utterly unlike religion that man invents. It is so completely contrary to the way man does things that it must have come from God. Take Christmas, for example; only God could have thought of that. When man invents a super being, he comes up with a Superman, or a Captain Marvel. God gives the world a baby.”

Men World Way Giving Doe Christianity Example Baby Understood Come Up Contrary Captains

Author:Richard Halverson

“I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.”

Should God Humour Understood Creator Derogatory

Author:William Ralph Inge

“A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private ownership, limited government way of life. Many business ventures fail entirely. Who then are the beneficiaries? The masses!”

Way Mean Facts Government Failing Mass Understood Chiefs Ownership Venture Businessman Free Market Limited Government Beneficiaries

Author:Leonard Read

“Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not 'disabled' as that term is generally understood. Rather, it's the U.S. economy that's disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency.”

People Jobs Lasts Social Term Economy Security Months Understood Checks Disability Social Security Disabled Dependency New Job

Author:Mark Steyn

“In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.”

“Music was known and understood before words were spoken.”

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Author:Charles Darwin

“Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.”

Mean Done Facts Life Is Certain Realizing Understood Stupidity Foolish Commit Splendid

Book:The late Mattia Pascal

Source: The late Mattia Pascal

“The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.”

People Trying Age Stuff Materials Involved Understood Concepts Adults Critics Satire

Author:Andy Kaufman

“Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.”

People Form Fiction Millions Understood Divorced

Author:Terence McKenna

“For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood.”

Way Littles Wonderful Internet Understood Negative Increase Profit Obvious Capitalist Efficiency Profitable American Business

Author:Charlie Munger

“Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it.”

“It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.”

“Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.”

“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.”

Men Firsts Understood Existentialism

Book:Essays in Aesthetics

Source: Essays in Aesthetics

“In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.”

World Spirit Animal Psychology One Thing Modern Century Keys Behavior Understood Concepts Forgotten Ecology Living Things Reduction Modern Science Animal Behavior

Author:Terence McKenna

“The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.”

Care Belief Understood Communicate Take Care Obligation

Author:Terence McKenna

“It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.”

Mind Becoming Understood

Author:Terence McKenna

“There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.”

Loses Effort Understood Doctors Patient Despite Doctor Who Parts Of Life Best Effort

Author:Zig Ziglar

“No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.”

Should Left Masters Genius Understood Deserve Bars Merit Repeats Sincere Proceeding Later In Life

Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.”

Ifs Firsts Kind Philosophy Age Young Principles Figures College Illusion Understood Mathematics Math Physics Silly Enjoyed Young Age Retrospect

Author:Erez Lieberman Aiden

“There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.”

Ifs Heart Stills Spirit Belief Nations Simple My Heart Projects Understood Optimism Cups Tea Leap Idealism Soar Frustrating Contradictory Cups Of Tea Oratory

Book:Stephen Fry in America

Source: Stephen Fry in America

“I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.”

People Ifs Men Should Wells Said Use Able Greater Regret Genius Taxes Understood Claims Income Defined Income Tax I Regret Castes

Author:Otto Weininger

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