#under

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings? ↗

— Brian Greene

#brains #cats #certainly #deepest #further

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role. ↗

— Jerry Greenfield

#business #come #face #global #global warming

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from supersition; the light of experience, from arrogrance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding. 1620 - Francis Bacon ↗

— Carl Sagan

#novum-organon #understanding #experience

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#experienced #in print #never #print #understand

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#being #christian #convert #each #faith

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#attraction #bette #bette davis #could #davis

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#because #before #i #important #more

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. ↗

— Matt Groening

#come #flips #ice #love #love is

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. ↗

— Robert Hall

#confide #equally #friend #once #opinion

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#better #economy #having #i #liked