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Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world. -- Miroslav Volf
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. -- Richard Dawkins
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world. -- Richard P. Feynman
Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. -- Carl Sagan
Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world. -- Ron Suskind
When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. -- George Steiner
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. -- Nathan Sawaya
Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. -- Max Fisher
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world. -- Greil Marcus
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. -- William Kentridge
People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover. -- Lisa Randall
But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. -- Carl Sagan
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves. -- Walter Lippmann
I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time. -- Ian Mckellen
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great. -- Vivienne Westwood
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew. -- Reggie Watts
If we return to the roots of planning we see at its heart a desire to understand human behaviour and provide a robust model for influencing it. Rather than dismantling strategy into endless experimentation, we need a new way of understanding the world, a modern philosophy. -- Faris Yakob
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world. -- Ang Lee
The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world. -- David Lee
I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding. -- Richard Dawkins
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. -- Laurence Sterne
The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world. -- Hugo Chavez
We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why. -- Clayton Christensen
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. -- Errol Morris
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. -- Jonathan Swift
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. -- Pierre Schaeffer
You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding. -- Don King
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. -- Stefan Zweig
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. -- Carl Sagan
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding. -- Rick Larsen
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. -- Willard Libby
I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world. -- Lech Walesa
To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world. -- Adam Mansbach
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
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world. -- Bill Mollison
Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. -- Douglas MacArthur
Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world, -- Dana Gioia
What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world? -- Atul Gawande
Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one's place in it. -- Josh Gates
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears. -- Susan Sontag
We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. -- Carl Sagan
We need to do a better job of understanding what the world is. -- Cameron Esposito
Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works. -- Michael Shermer
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world. -- Paulo Coelho
People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world. -- Wu Wei
Everyone dies without understanding anything. Thats the way the world works, after all. -- Yusuke Kishi
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. -- Anatole France
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world. -- Ida Tarbell
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. -- Vera Kistiakowsky
If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination. -- Reggie Watts
Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home. -- Huston Smith
...a little kindness-love-smile-understanding-willingness to help each other may yet go a mighty long way in contemporary-rational-materialistic-world.... -- Isabella Koldras
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it. -- Jiulio Consiglio
The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. -- Hermann Hesse
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding -- John Knowles
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much. -- Jack Kornfield
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts -- Ernst Mayr
The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination. -- Napoleon Hill
Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -- Juhani Pallasmaa
There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it. -- Tony Blair
Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding. -- Guy Finley
I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading. -- Dwight Yoakam
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world. -- Booth Tarkington
If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us -- Albert Einstein
I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds -- Mary McLeod Bethune
The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose. -- Nathalia Crane
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it... -- Rob Bell
We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding. -- Andy Andrews
By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world. -- Archibald Hill
By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world. -- Eli Pariser
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world. -- Tara Brach
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. -- Jeff Hawkins
There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others. -- Tian Dayton
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. -- Nicholas Serota
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. -- David Attenborough
I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human. -- John Trudell
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. -- David Sedaris
The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up. -- Robert Metcalfe
Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love. -- Pope Francis
Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind. -- Jonathan Haidt
Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story. -- Lisa Alther
There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit. -- Edmund Burke
If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world. -- Nhat Hanh
The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together. -- John Battelle
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness. -- Thomas S. Monson
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. -- Francis Bacon
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world -- Vannevar Bush
Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world. -- Stephen Batchelor
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. -- Aga Khan IV
What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period. -- Stevie Wonder
Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us. -- Peter Senge
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
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. -- Steven Spielberg
We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring. -- Guy Spier
Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself. -- Marianne Williamson
My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world. -- Joachim von Ribbentrop
We build our understanding of the emotional world through the myths and legends of our culture. We are all, in part, made of fairy tales. -- Will Storr
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
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now. -- Dave Davies
Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all... -- Muhammad Ali
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. -- Albert Camus
By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding. -- Robert Hooke
A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline. -- Russell D. Moore
There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess. -- Madeleine Albright
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
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us? -- Rowan Williams
In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues. -- Kofi Annan

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