Understood Quotes - Page 21

• God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Logical Reasoning, Submission, Logical

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• I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Jargon, Firsts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.66, Routledge

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• Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life And Death, Evil, Joy

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1921). “A Confession: And, What I Believe”

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for this reason, needs to be understood less in terms of budgets or fiscal cycles and more in terms of where we locate the sacred, of where we search for meaning and transcendence, and of how we think about justice, equality, and the future of our world.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Running, Spiritual, Thinking

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• One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

  E. M. Forster

  Unusual, Grows, Accustomed

  Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), Natwar-Singh, K (1964). “E.M. Forster: a Tribute. With Selections from His Writings on India. Edited, and with an Introd. by K. Natwar-Singh. Contributors: Ahmed Ali [and Others.]”, New York Harcourt

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• There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

  Norm MacDonald

  Practice, Two, Fool

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• Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.

  Carlos Castaneda

  War, Knowing, Discipline

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• Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Christian, Rome, Community

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• All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands and serving them. The fixed role pattern of one particular economic and family order is transformed into an order willed by God and given by creation. With a methodologically similar logic, slaves were understood as those elected by God to serve the whites.

  Dorothee Solle

  Husband, Home, Caring

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• The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Loyalty, Mean, Acceptance

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• The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

  Paul Watson

  Fishing, Would Be, Chance

  "Sea Shepherd: how we sank the Japanese whaling fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Government, Should Have

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.36, Penguin

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• This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

  Stephen King

  Imagination, Needs, Fiction

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.405, Simon and Schuster

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• Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live the king", in order to make it understood that despotism is immortal! Now an entire people, moved by a sublime instinct, cried: Long live the Republic! to teach the universe that tyranny died with the tyrant.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Kings, Order, Tyrants

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• In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a verbal agreement, but we both understood that because there was this constant tension between our characters, we couldn't say "Cut" and start acting normal. We had to keep an essence of that relationship in our characters off screen which is really important.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Cutting, Agreement

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I've never understood why it's a negative to showcase a talented, smart woman who also happens to be attractive.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Smart, Negative, Attractive

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.

  Benoit Lecomte

  Sports, Kids, Order

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• Those of us who don't want to worship an invisible being or spend our days fretting about punishment in Hades do want to be able to share what we hold dear with our families and the broader world, and we want to be understood and appreciated for who we are.

  Greg Epstein

  Punishment, World, Want

  Greg Epstein (2009). “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• I went to church every Sunday...I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of Christ, the Resurrection of Christ. I understood all that but I have to say that beyond that...for me, my knowledge after that was quite vague.

  Juan Pablo Di Pace

  Easter, Sunday, Crucifixion Of Christ

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways.

  Mark Durie

  Islamic, School, Years

  "Sharia Deceptions" by Robert Spencer, www.frontpagemag.com. November 3, 2010.

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• When you say Sharia, even to a Muslim, it's understood in vastly different ways, in many ways it's part of an identity and most Muslims when they talk about wanting Sharia to play a role in their lives really mean it in so far as it talks about family law, you know, issues like, as I said marriage, divorce.

  Mark Durie

  Mean, Divorce, Law

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• There's no such thing as values in Sharia law, that is what I was trying to explain, it's understood in thousands of different ways by tens of thousands of different institutions, who really disagree with each other far more than they disagree with people of other religions.

  Mark Durie

  Law, People, Trying

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

  Chris Pine

  Gone, Outcast, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Essence, Seductive

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