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To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.
To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.
World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.
You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.
By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.
Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.
Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...
It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.
I think projects often fail because people do not have a clear understanding at the start what they are trying to deliver.
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
The fastest way to have a loving, supportive, understanding spouse is to become a loving, supportive, understanding spouse.
If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.
Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.
In the end, I would love [the audience] to be more open to the understanding of different types of personalities, you know?
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.
Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.