#understand

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#culture #cultures #ends #essentially #her

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#fine #get #metaphors #sometimes #understanding

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.' ↗

— Richard Dawson

#anyone #asked #children #color #could

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #confusion #depression #discern #discernment

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#american #candidates #character #confidence #courage

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films. ↗

— Laura Dern

#actor #audition #films #go #good

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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