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Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all. -- Phyllis Chesler
If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview. -- Dalai Lama
Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals. -- Robert Lanza
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible. -- Henry Reed
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. -- Stefan Zweig
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them. -- Alice Sebold
When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
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
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole. -- David Deutsch
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality. -- Robert Crumb
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. -- Nhat Hanh
I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from. -- Jenna Elfman
When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility. -- Ayelet Waldman
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment. -- Victoria de los Angeles
It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington. -- David Harsanyi
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. -- John Polkinghorne
Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck. -- J. I. Packer
I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality. -- Brian Greene
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world. -- Ashley Judd
Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it. -- Caleb Deschanel
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting. -- Caleb Deschanel
Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world. -- Steven Pinker
You can't simplify reality without understanding it first. -- Carl Theodor Dreyer
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
It is your understanding that is going to change your reality. -- Deepak Chopra
Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality. -- Richard Bach
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. -- Lloyd Alexander
Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar -- Adi Shankara
...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference. -- Libba Bray
Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings? -- Millard Sheets
Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. -- Wes Nisker
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. -- Donald Knuth
Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever. -- Tibor Kalman
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. -- Jean Piaget
The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept. -- Mark Regev
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules. -- Hosokawa Tadaoki
Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world. -- Jack Kornfield
What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects. -- Hans Rookmaaker
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. -- Bertolt Brecht
In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank. -- Stephen Karam

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