Quotes about Understanding

We try to reach the heart of God without listening to the Word of God.

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.   Not I, quoth my uncle.   Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.—   No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.

The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not.

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.