#understanding

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. ↗

— David Hume

#captivating #desires #eloquence #entirely #hearers

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

#amuses #fancy #found #history #improves

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand ↗

— Hayley Williams

#knowing #lesson-on-living #life #paramore #singer

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#art #human #limitations #logic #misunderstanding

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#greatest #insidious #liberty #meaning #men

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#conception #else #nothing #speech #than

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#cast #failed #force #looked #magic

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#ends #gain #her #laws #nature

I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be. ↗

— Jenson Button

#fans #fit #formula #formula one #good