Understanding Quotes

• Science is ... a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along.'

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • True
  • Political

• There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

  

  Anatoly Chubais
  • Understanding

• If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Reason
  • Lament
  • Grounds

• Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

  

  Joe Torre
  • People
  • Heart
  • Winning

• We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Important
  • Fear
  • Laugh

• Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Trust
  • Relations
  • Based

• Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

  

  Christopher Fry
  • May
  • Death
  • Understanding

• The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Giving
  • Education
  • Deep

• Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • World
  • True

• Instead of understanding the crisis facing the country and helping the country, the opposition wants to weaken the country by its deeds.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • Country
  • Understanding

• We believe that the state is capable of understanding the needs of the nation; as such, then, the state must participate in the administration and direction of the university.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Believe
  • Understanding

• I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Country
  • America
  • War

• The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

  

  Arthur Young
  • Purpose
  • Understanding

• Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • Women
  • Understanding

• There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Live
  • Experience

• Well, I'm not talkin' bout locking down forever, baby.That would be too demanding.I'm just talkin' bout two lonely peopleWho might reach a little understanding.I'm not talkin' bout knocking out heavenwith whether we're wrong or we're right.I'm not talkin' bout hooking up and hanging out,I'm just talkin' bout tonight.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Forever
  • Baby

• Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

  

  Paul Weyrich
  • Understanding
  • Judge

• They will give us artificial intelligence, and tell us that this is the way to self-knowledge... instantaneous global communication... the way to mutual understanding... Virtual Reality... the answer to spiritual poverty. But that is only the way of the technician, the fact-mongerer, the information junkie, and the technological idiot.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Reality
  • Knowledge
  • Spiritual

• My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Leading

• Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data.

  

  Jefferson Han
  • Great
  • Learning
  • Understanding

• I think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

  

  Mark Lippert
  • Different
  • Country
  • Culture

• The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • Children
  • Judge

• They were just unbelievable, how structured they were and her understanding of music, which is not something you would expect from a pop artist. She had these ideas already in place for songs; all I really had to do was build music around them and develop them. It was quite easy.

  

  Ben Moody Evanescence
  • Music
  • Build
  • Develop

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