A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

It makes me sad that so many people feel they’re only allowed to show their best face, while their humanity and vulnerabilities are forbidden and hidden. How else do we connect, but by commonality, by...

Mentally, I think I’ve grown so much, understanding the offense and understanding the game and how to manage a game. I guess you can say it kind of feels like night and day.

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.

Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you.

When we say we understand something, but we do not experience it, we do not understand it. Understanding and experiencing are the same thing. For example, we may say: I understand the importance of forgiveness...

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked...

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively...

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently...

Life as we know it is our perception of reality.

there is no understanding between me and this worldthey don’t understand me and i don’t care them.

Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.

To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a thankless task and I gave it up. I turned to him with a smile...

For throughout history, the synthesizing impulse has proved a powerful even world-changing, tool for understanding the universe, capable of penetrating the intricate,contradictory web of surface phenomena to reveal the universal,unified cosmos beneath–that fundamental,unchanging phenomenon we...

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.””No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all....

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the...

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer, where there were gods of the sky and the Earth, the...

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Tread the path one has walked, before stoning them!

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible–you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time–was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with...

You don’t have to own something for it to be you. Haven’t you ever gone into a gallery and seen a painting and said ‘that’s me’. Or had a piece of music capture something deep...

I must have confessed that the feelings, emotions and sentiments in my words are beyond my understanding.

There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.–“Wanda

No one could possibly understand my purest feelings but I couldn’t care less; My deepest yearnings are nobody’s goddamn business anyway

The wave is the signature of every experience of life. By understanding the nature of waves and their characteristics, and applying that understanding to our lives, we can navigate life with a little more grace.

I think he’s beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

1887A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave.

{On the death of Hale’s esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank. Burbank was much beloved by the population unil in an interview he revealed that he was an atheist. After this, the public turned...

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

What,” “how,” “when,” etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask “why” is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect.

Knowing me better than I think anyone shouldExcept, perhapsNo, probablyNo, definitelyDefinitely except you

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when...

The Maestro spoke again. “When we are not, at what point do we become?” I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his...

The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success

The cardinal’s understanding is that he’ll be here another two years or so,

I hold the hands of people I never touch.I provide comfort to people I never embrace.I watch people walk into brick walls, the same ones over and over again, and I coax them to turn...

make” the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.

It is not for you to say – you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently forgotten what blood you shed, and what extremities you proceeded to in the...