I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.

The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

A worldview is simply someone's relatively organized understanding of what the world is actually like.

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

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