Understanding Quotes

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Support me... If you don't understand me don't write about me

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

The more people know, the more they forgive.

Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

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

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

Teenagers are people too!

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

For mine own part, it was Greek to me.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund