"Their understandings were the most acute of any people who have ever lived.

That the understanding is only a modification of light from the sun; the heat co-operating by means of ether, so that it is only an activity of interior nature; and that this activity may be so exalted as to appear like wisdom.

St. Thomas Aquinas commenting on "For I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is without fruit" (I. Cor.

If the causes of erroneous conclusions were always patent on the face of the reasonings which lead to them, the human understanding would be a far more trustworthy instrument than it is.

Now, my whole thesis is that understanding, work, co-operation, adjustment, must be the basis of human society; that conquest as a means of achieving national advantage must fail; that to base your prosperity or means of livelihood, your economic system, in short, upon having more force than someone else, and exercising it against him, is an impossible form of human relationship that is bound to break down.

With the latter adulterers, the understanding is the principal agent; with the former the will.

The understanding, even partial, of this correspondence will be a long step in a long new road.

An understanding that this principle should be observed by them was the natural result of the respective positions and pacific intentions of the two Governments, and could alone prevent the exercise of asserted rights by force.

WILL and UNDERSTANDING.The will is the man himself, and the understanding is the man as grounded in the will, 490.

It is positively mortifying to think how shockingly we have been taken in, and that the "cordial understanding" that had, apparently, been growing up between the two nations was a misunderstanding throughout, though we were sincere in desiring its existence.

The understanding considered in itself is merely the ministering and serving principle of the will, 196.

The true understanding of the case, however, and the vindication of the conduct of Government, would be matters of comparatively light importance, if censure or approbation for the past were the only result in contemplation.

"A thorough understanding of the subject is indispensablewhen you have a stepmothera young stepmother.

Hence the understanding, considered specially as an intellective power, is the source and faculty of words;and on this account the understanding is justly defined, both by Archbishop Leighton, and by Immanuel Kant, the faculty that judges by, or according to, sense.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for philosophical purposes.

He was content only when the heathens perceived that further resistance to Allah's hosts was useless; their understanding of his "clear Arabic Qorân" was no longer the principal object of his striving.

"' Having discovered, that not all that is within the canon of the Scripture is infallibly correct, and that the human understanding is competent to arraign and convict at least some kinds of error therein contained;where was I to stop?

The understanding is the lawgiver of nature: "It does not draw its laws a priori from nature, but prescribes them to it"; the principles of the pure understanding are the most universal laws of nature, the empirical laws of nature only particular determinations of these.

He looks up with unfeigned respect to acknowledged reputation (but then it must be very well ascertained before he admits it)and has a favourite hypothesis that Understanding and Virtue are the same thing.

This follows from what was said above, in regard to the origin of conjugial love,that the sphere of conjugial love is received by the women, and through them is transferred to the men: because women are born loves of the understanding of the men, and the understanding is a recipient.

But antick cloaths and cringes; look in thy head, And 'twill appear a footbal full of fumes And rotten smoke; Ladie, I pitie you; You are a handsome and a sweet young Ladie, And ought to have a handsome man yoak'd t'ye, An understanding too; this is a Gincrack, That ca[n] get nothing but new fashions on you; For say he have a thing shap'd like a child, 'Twill either prove a tumbler or a tailor.

An understanding of the definitions and of the general principles distinguishing competition and monopoly is a necessary prerequisite to a profitable discussion of the practical problem of monopoly.]

"Understanding is a power of the soul, [1011]by which we perceive, know, remember, and judge as well singulars, as universals, having certain innate notices or beginnings of arts, a reflecting action, by which it judgeth of his own doings, and examines them."

His understanding of love, religion, duty, patriotism, is paltry and even shocking.

His understanding is always at its meridianyou never see the first dawn, the early streaks.