The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything...
Robert G. IngersollTags: honesty knowledge understanding conceit learn willing
[When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]
Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
Tags: science biology atheism ignorance understanding atheist physics watson nobel-laureate dna god-of-the-gaps double-helix watson-and-crick
One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is made that that belief in the success of science in describing the workings of the world is no longer thought to be in conflict with faith in God. I would like to argue against this trend, in favor of a more old-fashioned point of view that is still more characteristic of most scientists, who tend to disbelieve in any religious component to the workings of the universe.
Sean CarrollTags: science knowledge universe understanding superstition academia irreligious irreligion science-and-religion
If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was.
Richard C. CarrierTags: atheism understanding logic wants clarity needs fallibility message brilliance historian silent-god atheist-argument argument-from-god-s-silence internet-infidels richard-carrier
Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I’ll
understand myself right into the nearest mental asylum.
Tags: insanity understanding crazy mental
The Patrician took a sip of his beer. “I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I’m sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters, who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature’s wonders, gentlemen: mother and children dining on mother and children. And that’s when I first learned about evil. It is built into the nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.
Terry PratchettTags: evil death understanding existentialism mothers patrician
Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others
Abbi GlinesTags: compassion understanding passionate
...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you.
John KnowlesTags: friendship acceptance jealousy understanding sad betrayal
If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain in people's lives...and not take personally what they do to us.
Joseph F. GirzoneTags: peace faith understanding jesus understanding-others inner-peace peace-of-soul
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
Carson McCullersTags: loneliness understanding longing aloneness
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