Read quote“Science and religion engage our complicated world from different perspectives, and at different levels. Between them, they offer us a kind of bi-focal lens like you might get in spectacles.”
About Understanding
The process of making sense of ideas, experiences, people, and the world.
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Words on Understanding
Read quote“To make the complex world simpler.”
Read quote“Musiałem do tej świadomości dorosnąć.”
Read quote“We have to invest in curiosity-driven research: research that comes from a simple desire to improve our understanding of the world.”
Read quote“If we add what you know to what we know, we may end up with a fuller, better picture.”
Read quote“I try to bridge those worlds.”
Read quote“I personally have a feeling that when we do understand how the brain works it’s going to be much simpler than we currently think.”
Read quote“I cannot conceive how a man with understanding and with a sound heart, can be anything else than a good patriot and a lover of freedom.”
Read quote“Reconciliation has been, I think, a very effective way to bring most Australians to an understanding of Australia's past.”
Read quote“The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.”
Read quote“Explain before you complain.”
Read quote“When you understand without selfishness, prajna becomes karuna, compassion.”
Read quote“House of Hope is abstract. It concerns the existence of something large, but which we cannot grasp.”
Read quote““It shines a light on every aspect of your life.””
Read quote“Leaders should be the most curious people in the room.”
Read quote“There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.”
Read quote“經之至者道也,所以明道者其詞也,所以成詞者字也。由字以通其詞,由詞以通其道,必有漸。”
Read quote“Yang salah adalah dia tahu atau nggak ya dia ngerjain apa. Kebanyakan mereka nggak tahu.”
Read quote“The misunderstood understand the best.”
Read quote“The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being.”
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