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

All I can say is, it’s a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill...

Second, I’m also not allowed to break your damn heart. And last, I’m not allowed to fucking break your damn heart.

There’s a logical reason for everything in the universe even if we cannot comprehend, understand, or express that reason.

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one’s judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool...

Yes, our goal as Christians should be to do away with the things in our world that keep people from knowing the love and freedom of Christ. Equally, and maybe more so, our goal should...

She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding. Her active living...

You stupid fool, you know very well it’s not a short novel, but something longer…A piece of work you’ve got to buckle down to, that needs peace and concentration. Being able to wake up in...

[When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]Oh, no. Absolutely not… The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to...

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

I’m taller in tolerance than I am in height. Barely. I’m only 6’3, so I apologize for not being more understanding.

A ști anumite lucruri pe de rost îți conferă capacitatea unei înțelegeri superioare.

People say: ‘Let the facts speak for themselves’; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood.

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they’d never blossom.

Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding.

Gus has a good understanding of the offence. He’s very knowledgeable, and we felt he would give us the best opportunity to be successful and develop this offensive team.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one’s words does not carve out a direct path for itself,...

Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you...

she enetered the room and the entire crowd stopped, who was she? even in a million moons; you will never understand her, for she is to mysterious to presume and too wise to share her...

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds,...

What we call the Lord’s prayer is actually the Disciple’s Prayer because It says “Forgive us our trespasses” and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I...

and afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to… I don’t know…. explode, and it was just too much, I had to let it out you...

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to...

She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won’t happen

Byl nesmírně vnímavý, a to pro něho znamenalo problémy. Chápal svět úplně jinak. Nedokázal v něm normálně fungovat. Všechny ty zákonitosti, nařízení, pravidla. Možná proto si mě získal. Jako bych se viděl v zrcadle, tak...

We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, — blown and flared by passion’s storm, — and yet, it is the only light....

Why are…poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their...

Light and the human is poorly understood by the astronomicalprofession, with many astronomers not understanding which light bulbs they should have in their ownhomes and offices! It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the...

Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new awarenesses. Although we have always prided ourselves on our willingness to...

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s...

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.

hindi dahil sa hindi mo naiintindihan ang isang bagay ay kasinungalingan na ito. at hindi lahat ng kaya mong intindihin ay katotohanan.

Today I began to criticise myself and look at myself with a judgmental eye… but then instead of going all out in that direction, I stopped and I began to understand me. And then I...

Everything is going to be alright’ doesn’t mean stubbing your toe won’t hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle

When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely to be different than those of people who have been treated with medication. Psychotherapy is a learning experience. Improvement is not produced...

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science’s growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it’s dangerous.

Was it your understanding that by doing what you were doing, Bonny was facing prison?

My brother, he says. My brother is dead.”And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have...

… understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world’s bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or...

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make...

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel… he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men… a good ruler has to learn his world’s language… it’s different for every...

Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there was no point...

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

…that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.

Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.