…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

We can understand almost anything, but we can’t understand how we understand.

Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

If you think you know what your purpose is, but can never seem to gain satisfaction from it, then it’s probably not the purpose you’re destined for.

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and...

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization...

Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something.”The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement....

We can now see Antarctica melting. We have a number for the ice sheet. It’s a big step toward understanding how the sea level is going to change.

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a...

fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity,...

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one’s reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if...

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.

As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this...

While we have a better understanding of the Syrian position, differences remain between the Syrian and Israeli positions.

[So whether you’re devoted to the classical standards, crave something new, or look to deepen your understanding of a new work or an old favorite, the Philharmonic has your ticket to excitement:] The concert hall,...

Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it....

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

The simplest things are the hardest to understand.

Thus the feeling I sometimes have – which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have – that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by...

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned...

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy...

I’ve got plenty of it, and I don’t care for the stuff.

… being with people who don’t understand is worse than being alone with her grief.

Lack of understanding about roles/responsibilities results in violation of statutes on board’s part.

Some won’t appreciate you no matter how much you do for them. Release yourself. Go where you’re appreciated and understood. –

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

One’s rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one’s praise.

None of us can choose where we shall love…

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker...

I can understand where he’s coming from… I too was once secretly in love with you, and I could do nothing but watch from afar. Being close to you while pretending that we’re nothing more...

The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming...

I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,And I look at flowers and I smile…I don’t know if they understand meOr if I understand them,But I know the truth is in...

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.

Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them

Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

When you speak, be sure of what you are speaking. Don’t be rambling full of words that have no integrity or truth. Nobody wants to confide in you when they doubt what you say. If...

[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. Nay, the very incident which, by my theory, must in some degree estrange me and him, changed, indeed,...

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people’s perception of you rather than people’s perception of you.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? … the skeleton of our understanding, … and actually they are the majority. … We have here a problem that...

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.