Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.
Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is.
Kids under, I'd say, 14 are still maturing; they are still growing. They are still understanding themselves. To hit them with something like 'Roots,' to hit them with this particular period of time, it's important to discuss the matters beyond the program itself.
We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in.
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.
Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.
As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused.
I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.
Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!
I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist.
