#standing

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#reading #understanding #wicked #words #change

People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand. ↗

— Idries Shah

#technique #understanding #motivational

...I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up. ↗

— Philip J. Hilts

#memory #personality #understanding-others #nature

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#nature

If you can admit that you haven't yet understood everything, faith can fill the emptiness in heart to confront the hesitation. ↗

— Toba Beta

#emptiness-in-heart #faith #hesitation #understanding #faith

That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so? ↗

— Kaye Gibbons

#guilt #peace #understanding #faith

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable. ↗

— Megan Chance

#faith #logic #spiritualism #understanding #faith

The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying that you do not know, -- he demonstrates that you do not know, and he drives you from the field of fact -- he drives you from the realm of reason -- he drives you from the light, into the darkness of conjecture -- into the world of dreams and shadows, and he compels you to say, at last, that your faith has no foundation in fact. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#atheism #fact #facts #knowledge #reason

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#happy #ladies #men #sadness #understanding

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#understanding #forgiveness