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Wideand undetermined prospects areas pleasing tothe fancy, as the speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding.
Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
Pluralismthat is, the conception that there are many different ends that men may seek and still be fully rational, fully men, capable of understanding each other and sympathising and deriving light from each other.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
The entrance of thy wordsgiveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Trust in the L with all thine heart; and lean not unto Psalms thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Miss not the discourse of the elders: for theyalso learned of their fathers, and of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give answer as need requireth.
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keepyourheartsandmindsintheknowledgeand love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord: And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you and remain with you always. Amen.
De tant comme femmes ont le corps plus delie que les hommes, plus foible et moins habille a plusieurs choses faire, de tant ont elles l'entendement plus a delivre et plus agu ou elles s'appliquent. Just as women's bodies are more delicate than men's, weaker and less able for many things, so, where they apply themselves, their understanding is freer and sharper.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy,Ithink, likeall menat seawho livetoo closeto each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.
Sir,Ihave found youanargument; but Iam not obligedto find you an understanding.
He showed me something small, no bigger than a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed to me, and it was as round as a ball. I looked at it with the eye of my understanding, and thought: What can this be? I was amazed that it could last, for I thought that because of its littleness it would suddenly have fallen intonothing. And Iwas answered inmy understanding: It lasts and always will, because God loves it; and thus every thing has being through the love of God.
DerVerstand vermag nichts anzuschauen, und die Sinne nichts zu denken. Nur daraus, dass sie sich vereinigen, kann Erkenntnis entspringen. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing.Only through their union can knowledge arise.
She was thinkingfor, since she had been formed by literature, she could think in no other waythat all this had been described in Dickens,Tolstoy, Hugo, Dostoevsky, and a dozen others. All that noble and terrific indignation had done nothing, achieved nothing, the shout of anger from the nineteenth century might as well have been silentfor here came the file of prisoners, handcuffed two by two, and on their faces was that same immemorial look of patient, sardonic understanding.
The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
There are two ways to teach mathematics.One is to take real pains toward creating understandingvisual aids, that sort of thing. The other is the old British style of teaching until you're blue in the face.
Your country is more precious and more to be revered and is holier and in higher esteem among the gods and among men of understanding than your mother and your father and all your ancestors.
There is at least one philosophical problem in which all thinking men are interested. It is the problem of cosmology: the problem of understanding the worldincluding ourselves, and our knowledge, as part of the world. All science is cosmology, I believe, and for me the interest of philosophy, no less than that of science, lies solely in the contributions which it has made to it.
The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention. He generally becomes asstupidand ignorant asit ispossible for a human creature to become.
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English speaking audiences.
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