Understand The World Quotes

#1. I' have not had to borrow or beg for years. This world is indeed all yours. If you know how to 'see', if you know how to view the world, if you know how to understand the world, then the world is truly all yours. You are truly the Owner.

Dada Bhagwan

#2. It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

Kevin Systrom

#4. We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

Laozi

#5. Because science shows us how to better understand the world, but it also reveals to us just how vast is the extent of what is still not known. The

Carlo Rovelli

#6. I always look toward teens on Instagram to really understand what's going on. For some reason, when you're a teen, you just understand the world better than anyone else.

Kevin Systrom

#7. No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens ... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.

Guy Debord

#8. I don't really understand the world anymore. But maybe there's some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.

Greg Iles

#9. We often try to understand the world without understanding ourselves.

Debasish Mridha

#10. It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our family, to our communities, etc. - you also contribute to the basic development and evolution of humanity.

Rusty Schweickart

#11. It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

Virginia Satir

#12. We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero could be and what the hero's journey as a human being is all about. But unfortunately, I think sometimes those stories too can be very prohibitive and confining.

Chris Pine

#13. My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.

Dave Davies

#14. I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

Bear Grylls

#15. The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Karl Marx

#16. Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

David McCandless

#17. It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.

Gavriel Savit

#18. Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible.

John Edward Williams

#19. The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.

Ai Weiwei

#20. I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

Carla H. Krueger

#21. We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

Salman Rushdie

#22. Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

Grace Paley

#23. To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

William Faulkner

#24. Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

Tariq Ramadan

#25. You know ... it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

Nicholas Sparks

#26. The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

Siri Hustvedt

#27. A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.

George Saunders

#28. To understand the world, one's place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

Kevin Powers

#29. Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.

Charles Platt

#30. If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder. Because when people all share values, when people all share morals, they become a team.

Jonathan Haidt

#31. We cannot hope to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation.

Ken Follett

#32. I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world ... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

Anne Bancroft

#33. As I see it, the aims of education are to enable students to understand the world around them and the talents within them so that they can become fulfilled individuals and active, compassionate citizens.

Ken Robinson

#34. Looking at these photographs, I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I've been. I've learned for sure only what I don't know - and how much I have to learn.

Anthony Bourdain

#35. Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?

Isobelle Carmody

#36. To thoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I'm only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not to hate it and me, to be able to look upon it and me and all beings with love and admiration and great respect.

Hermann Hesse

#37. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. And the closer you will be to your Soulmate.

Paulo Coelho

#38. You may not be able to understand the world, but you can create your own world with your perception and imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#39. She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn't care.

Douglas Adams

#40. No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.

Carl Sagan

#41. I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

Erica Jong

#42. No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could not serve humanity.

Xinran

#43. You don't have to understand the world. You just have to find your own way around in it.

Albert Einstein

#44. Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

Kent Nerburn

#45. If you can write, you can read. And if you can read, you can better understand the world and its different societies. Knowledge is the key to destroying prejudice and individual hate, which always culminates in violence against the innocent.

The Black Rose

#46. Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#47. It's possible to understand the world from studying a leaf. You can comprehend the laws of aerodynamics, mathematics, poetry and biology through the complex beauty of such a perfect structure.
It's also possible to travel the whole globe and learn nothing.

Joy Harjo

#48. As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable.

Sean Carroll

#49. There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#50. A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

Jan Brett

#51. Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.

Nicole Lapin

#52. Philosophy is then nothing more than properly directed questions made in an attempt to better understand the world in which we live as a means of improving the quality of one's life.

Chris Matakas

#53. We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Carl Jung

#54. You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Paulo Coelho

#55. In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#56. Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Socrates

#57. Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

Peter Senge

#58. I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

Jeff Tweedy

#59. I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective. I wanna learn and I wanna listen.

Angelina Jolie

#60. There is more information in one thimble of reality
than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is
beyond the human brain to understand the world and its
environment, so the brain compensates by creating simplified
illusions that act as a replacement for understanding.

Scott Adams

#61. Leave me like this. I have come full circle and I understand. The world must be read backward. All is clear.

Italo Calvino

#62. Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.

Jesmyn Ward

#63. I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

Jennifer Doudna

#64. To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;

Donna Tartt

#65. I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

Sam Neill

#66. There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.

Lisa Lucas

#67. The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

Sid Grossman

#68. It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

Yuri Milner

#69. Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.

Zadie Smith

#70. Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it's hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse.

Elly Griffiths

#71. I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by looking. This is interesting in itself, but more as a broad-based metaphor for how we understand the world.

William Kentridge

#72. I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

Katherine Anne Porter

#73. If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

Paulo Coelho

#74. I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Mitchel Resnick

#75. we are in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 or 300 years when people don't understand the world anymore, and the past is not sufficient to explain the future

Kim S. Cameron

#76. When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Bertolt Brecht

#77. Reading may affect or damage your eyes, but I'm damn sure it will give your heart strength to understand the world very closely and in well manner.

Raj Singh

#78. In certain fiction, she perceives truths that she rarely finds in nonfiction; therefore, in her quest to better understand the world and the meaning of her life, she reads those novels that suggest a world of wonders, dark and light, forever unfolding for eyes willing to see.

Dean Koontz

#79. Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world

Bryan Caplan

#80. My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

James Buchan

#81. To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

Albert Einstein

#82. I had a game where I liked to imagine what sort of pyjamas each passerby might wear. This came from a belief that the more I know about the inner lives of others, the more I might understand the world.

Stephanie LaCava

#83. Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity.

Irina Bokova

#84. The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Paul Cezanne

#85. The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.

Alex Abreu

#86. Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#87. I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a narrative memoir, blogging for The Huffington Post, writing poems, or talking on the screen about what has happened to me and how that relates to the world at large.

Staceyann Chin

#88. In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
[The Minotaur]

Albert Camus

#89. Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#90. If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.

David Novak

#91. When Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!

Apostolos Doxiadis

#92. Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.

Tim Brown

#93. Go in search of your Gift. The process of finding ourselves is called Love. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

Paulo Coelho

#94. When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

Nelson Mandela

#95. I think more to the point, these pivotal times means something other than a politician. I understand the economy. I understand the world. I have a lot of foreign policy experience. I understand bureaucracies. I understand technology, and I understand leadership.

Carly Fiorina

#96. When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.

Jim Holt

#97. You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

Dennis Kucinich

#98. We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.

Stephen Elliott

#99. We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world

Yosef Abramowitz

#100. Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

Ramana Maharshi