No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals...

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we...

La nuit, tout sent bon”, disait Mondo.”C’est parce qu’on ne voit pas”, disait Thi Chin.”on sent mieux, et on entend mieux quand on ne voit pas”.

A crucial point here is that understanding is not only a matter of reflection, using finitary propositions, on some preexistent, already determinate experience. Rather, understanding is the way we “have a world,” the way we...

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit’s fur!)

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the...

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope,...

Every human in this world is greedy.

You can’t expect someone to understand your journey, when they’ve hardly lived one of their own.

We don’t necessarily need to know each other’s name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn together by a...

We appreciate the sensitivity of the commissioner and (the TEA’s) understanding of what we’ve been through down here.

If you can admit that you haven’t yet understood everything,faith can fill the emptiness in heart to confront the hesitation.

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them....

Then why do you want to know?””Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier...

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may...

To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect.

To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live without understanding is to live without sense or purpose. To live without awareness is to live as...

Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.

People think “monsters” are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell…

I don’t existmetal pressed to pagesspilling blood, inkin vein each thought ragesSunlight shootingthrough a forest of pinesblack top windingand yellow dotted linesI am not hereonly a deep aching,a lightning flashand a tree trunk breakingSheets once...

As you travel along the roads in life, there is a certain kind of peace that comes with knowing you’re on the right path. And when you are faced with adversity, it challenges you but...

Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy (‘love of wisdom’) is simply a tool depending on how one uses it,...

Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.

Not always majority are correct sometimes it goes with a lack of understanding

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only into what it itself produces according to its own design; that it must...

Dining at the rare reasonTo get between the circumstanceAnd start milking the Caesars For what enters the earsAnd is for their eyes to air and advise.

Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer edges of my world, helped me draw a...

To love is easy and therefore common – but to understand – how rare it is!

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

I had to open my eyes, so I could see a new life!

We shouldn’t let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order...

if only you could see through my eyes at the life that I’ve lived and if only you could think through my thoughts & hear every word that was said and seen and how it...

I loved her for what I couldn’t understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes.

I don’t think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It’s just cause and effect. We never can sort them out. Science refuses to admit any cause except first cause-knock down one domino, the...

It takes understanding to be outstanding

slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn;t hit her veins when she did...

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

It is only when we are in the habit of recognizing our opinions as a partial experience seen through our stereotypes that we become truly tolerant of an opponent.