#understanding

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#aids #attention #awaken #being #belief

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#class #fingers #greatest #greatest things #i

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#intellects #outstripped #their #understanding #whose

Much learning does not teach understanding. ↗

— Heraclitus

#learning #much #teach #understanding

We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#detailed #discovery #down #larger #light

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#always #best #comedy #down #funny

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#almost #draw #even #extinguish #may

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#great #ideas #important #judgement #line

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships