Isaac Newton Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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

  Uplifting, Men, Imagination

  Sir Isaac Newton (1950). “Theological Manuscripts: Selected and Edited with an Introd. by H. McLachlan”

• God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.

  Isaac Newton

  Spiritual, Animal, Thinking

• All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

  Isaac Newton

  Ocean, Understanding, Shells

• If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would feel no inclination to change employment because an angel would know that no matter what we are doing, it's an opportunity to bring joy, deepen our understanding and expand our life.

  Isaac Newton

  Angel, Opportunity, Two

• I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

  Isaac Newton

  Understanding, Understood

• The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

  Isaac Newton

  Understanding, Example, Way

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