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Understanding
«The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Learning,
Mankind,
Understanding
| Keywords:
attain
«The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.»
Author: Henry Mille
| About:
Art,
Experience,
Life,
Understanding
| Keywords:
of his own, re-create, re-created, recreate, recreates, recreating, tinker, tinkering, tinkers
«The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.»
Author: Steven Weinberg
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
farce, farces, grace, level, lifts, Some of, tragedy
«The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Understanding
| Keywords:
in use, joyous, muscle, The Brain
«The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
distorting, distorts, false, irregularly, mingles, mingling, mirror, rayed, rays, receiving, The Nature of Things, X ray
«The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
deliver, enable, improvement, secondly
«The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Government,
Understanding
| Keywords:
monarchy
«The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Evil,
Ignorance,
Intention,
Understanding
| Keywords:
Almost always, harm, intentions, lack, malevolence
«The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
peculiar, supposes