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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race. — Buzz Aldrin

I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life. — Craig Venter

The human heart is exquisitely fragile. Our judgments need to be gentle, our understanding deep, and our forgiveness wide. — Ron Rolheiser

Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck — Claude C. Hopkins

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding. — Peter Ackroyd

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted — Henry Hyde

Ordinary human laws are the means
however imperfect
by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. — Russell Kirk

However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is. — Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

Is it possible, finally, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We — Haruki Murakami

Some things are beyond human understanding. — Alexandra Adornetto

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings — Bryant McGill

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition. — Sharon Gless

As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be. — Gregory Hines

We should not expect too much from faith," he said. "Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. — Margaret Atwood

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race. — Victor J. Stenger

Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings. — Brian Weiss

We're long on high principles and short on simple human understanding. — Vernor Vinge

Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans? — Drats

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. — Ralph Ellison

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being. — Terry Riley

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight. — Margaret Bourke-White

Two human beings have such difficulty in understanding each other - there is nothing so sad as two human beings. — Halldor Laxness

A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave. — Jessie Burton

They didn't understand what they were doing.
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. — Michael Crichton

Is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? — Harriet Martineau

A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. — Fran Lebowitz

The hardship in living out the vision comes from human frailty, and want of understanding; not from evil or malice. "Men — Basil Johnston

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. — Abba Eban

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding ... as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. — Carl Jung

Reality exists independent of human minds, but our understanding of it depends upon the beliefs we hold at any given time. — Michael Shermer

Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion. — Jane Austen

Mathematics is an art of human understanding. — William Thurston

You can't fight with who you are — Sajjad Ali Noor

Maturity gives the best understanding of our human head and heart. Every decision we take seems less important after the results of the action. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

One purpose in my writing is to help people expand their own understanding of what it means to be human. — Foster Laverne Harding

India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings. — Will Durant

But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right. — Iris Murdoch

To gain an understanding of the mind leads on to an appreciation of what it means to be human. — Steven Mithen

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. — Carl Jung

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. — Stephen Hawking

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. — George Soros

Define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth. — John Stuart Mill

No one can understand human reality without understanding human imagination. — Marty Rubin

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature. — Ai Weiwei

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on. — Wendell Pierce

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is. — John Lennon

A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence. — Kilroy J. Oldster

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. — Tom Robbins

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair. — Dalai Lama XIV

The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature. — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. — Francis Bacon

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God. — Margaret Atwood

It is logical to say that ignorance seems to be the root cause of all human suffering. — Kat Lahr

On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior. — W. Edwards Deming

Design is a human ritual of understanding. — Maggie Macnab

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. — Thomas De Quincey

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. — Richard Feynman

Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that. — Anna Deavere Smith

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell — Heinz Kohut

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. — Martin H. Fischer

More than ever, the human world needs to find ways to build love, understanding, and peace, individually and on a global scale. — Rick Hanson

On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are. — John Green

Self-interest and rational calculation can thus look like common sense, but there are other ways of understanding human motivations. — Derek Wall

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz

Every human in this world is greedy. — Md. Mujib Ullah

Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race — Jeremy Griffith

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. — Stephen Covey

It is our Spiritual nature to understand, accept and allow our human nature. — Maximus Freeman

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. — Ayad Akhtar

It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances. — Daya Kudari

In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. — Al Gore

There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis. — Pete Hamill

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication. — Juliette Lewis

The typical approach to understanding human behavior has always been to look for the average behavior or outcome. — Shawn Achor

Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions. — Auliq Ice

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings. — Jonathan Nolan

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one. — Tim Robbins

In the Human Form..Man has been granted the faculty of 'discretion' and the power of 'discerning'..grows only through 'depths' of understanding Self!! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world. — Gwyneth Paltrow

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour — Gary Becker

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. — Wilhelm Dilthey

Nature's design is fully economical. Human design follows this model when it minimizes information and maximizes understanding. — Maggie Macnab

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives. — Francis Bacon

Through the mind and judgment,
it is not possible to understand
oneself and others.
True understanding is
a compassionate heart. — Human Angels

Making sense only to yourself is the most feasible test for human personal understanding — Mpho Leteng

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding. — Martin Luther

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. — Ralph G. Nichols

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. — Francis Bacon

A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it. — Paolo Bacigalupi

An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things. — Henry Rollins

Sometimes translation stops you understanding. — China Mieville

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. — Raymond Williams

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. — Frank Herbert

Every human being has to have compassion and try to be understanding, and that goes double for people who share your blood, — Kristen Ashley

I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human. — John Trudell