Understanding Limits Quotes

From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are not able to find the reason thereof, yet for this glorify the Creator, that the wisdom of these works surpass thine understanding.

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

Sometimes it's okay for an audience not to understand everything that's going on.

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

If you understand, it is not God.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.

There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.