All Quotes By Tag: Understanding
“Logic only tells us what’s there; it can’t really address what isn’t. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.”
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“Everything you know is past. And with that disgusting arrogance of knowing the past, one cannot know something novel.”
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“The best answers often come only after we have discovered the correct questions.”
“An educated person is she or he who knows where or how to acquire knowledge.”
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“It’s time to take religion out of the dark ages, and bring it back into the light where truth, love, compassion, and understanding belong.”
“Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.”
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“The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.”
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“Anguish is the universal language”
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“In a sense, the media is a moving Potemkin village of understanding, constantly adapting and reconstructing after-the-fact.”
“There are things in life that we simply must experience in order to know. Someone can tell you what it feels like to experience or witness the birth of your first child, but the actual experience is in another realm altogether. The same is true of love. You can read sonnets, hear romantic songs, and understand the biochemistry, but until you experience love, it’s all just a bunch of words.”
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“Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.”
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“Being heartbroken doesn’t mean you stop feeling. Just the opposite — it means you feel it all more. With your heart in fragments, every sensation is sharper, every emotion more acute. Your feelings are enhanced, like a blind man with an impeccable sense of smell, or a deaf woman whose eyes can perceive things a normal person would never recognize. The brokenhearted are the best empaths of all.”
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“After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.”
“We are closest to real knowledge when we are closest to understanding our own bodies.”
“We are closest to real knowledge when we’re closest to understanding our own bodies.”