#understanding

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#anthropology #beings #context #experience #human

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#cabinet #construction #endeavor #history #neither

Language is not the barrier, the heart is". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#language-understanding #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood. ↗

— Brandon Andress

#ears #eyes #hear #jesus #jesus-christ

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#artist #emperor #her #his #oppresses

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#beautiful woman #delights #eye #pure #soul

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#coming #found #genius #imagination #inherited

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#many #nature #ny times #over #senses

We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#entire #extremist #grapple #growing #international

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes. ↗

— Avi Arad

#again #being #books #bothered #dealing