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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. -- Terence McKenna
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time. -- David R. Brower
If I had to go into a battle and I needed someone loyal and courageous to cover my blindside, I know damn well Woody would be my man. I know, too, that God hasn't created a more generous, compassionate, or more understanding man than Woody Hayes. -- Jack Tatum
I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner. -- Tracy Reese
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it. -- Karl Jaspers
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance. -- George Gillespie
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. -- Walter Kaufmann
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
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. -- Isaac Newton
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it. -- Barbara Jordan
I think sex appeal is something that's fun. But I'd guess any man with any conscious consideration or understanding of his own sex appeal is one of the least sexy men you might meet. -- Luke Goss
I would say that an understanding of man's intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer. -- Paul Rand
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man. -- Bryant H. McGill
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. -- Paul Ricoeur
A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things... they are rooted to the role of the man. -- Vincent Nichols
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We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. -- Carl Jung
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair
Man's best candle is his understanding. -- James Howell
The man of understanding finds everything laughable. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding -- Jacob Bronowski
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. -- Alexander Pope
Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding. -- Sophocles
The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth. -- Samuel Johnson
A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. -- Okakura Kakuzo
Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing. -- Michel de Montaigne
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart. -- Rumi
I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding. -- Samuel Johnson
When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding. -- Meister Eckhart
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding? -- Khalil Gibran
An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding. -- Gautama Buddha
The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness. -- Rajneesh
A man is wise not because of his intelligence, but because of his understanding and kindness. -- Debasish Mridha
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. -- Bill Gates
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes. -- Josh Billings
The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience. -- Karl G. Maeser
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike. -- Hermes Trismegistus
A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. -- Antonio Porchia
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat. -- J. K. Rowling
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language -- Jean Rostand
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path. -- Sivananda
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. -- Vernon Howard
However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is. -- Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body. -- Clement of Alexandria
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf. -- P. G. Wodehouse
God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life. -- Jacob Needleman
The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile. -- Henry David Thoreau
When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man. -- Woodrow Wilson
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding. -- George Santayana
Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father. -- Indira Gandhi
The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell -- Heinz Kohut
Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort. -- F. Matthias Alexander
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony. -- John Calvin
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary -- John Steinbeck
Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention. -- Jonathan Swift
A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. -- Owen Feltham
Every girl in the world wants to find the right man, someone who is sympathetic and understanding and helpful and strong, someone she can love madly. -- Carole Landis
To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other. -- Kenneth Waltz
A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development. -- Idries Shah
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment. -- Immanuel Kant
If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses. -- Margaret Bourke-White
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes. -- Francis Bacon
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man? -- Darrel Ray
Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding. -- John Fairclough
Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude. -- John C. Maxwell
The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either. -- Marilynne Robinson
You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help. -- Ted Dekker
In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons. -- Jeremy Taylor
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. -- Walter Kaufmann
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. -- John Bunyan

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