I wanted simultaneously to understand Hanna’s crime and to condemn it. But it was too terrible for that. When I tried to understand it, I had the feeling I was failing to condemn it as...

Date un regalo giornaliero: “capire ognuno.”Give a daily gift: “understand one another.

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story–if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other...

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, ‘God, I just don’t know...

The human mind is itself a miraculous machine. I am writing right now, but I have no idea how this is happening. I know that my brain is composed of a cerebrum, a cerebellum, and...

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered...

I think, actually, that none of us understands anyone else very well, because we’re all too shy to show what matters the most. If you ask me, it’s a major design flaw. We ought to...

I felt like we had a very good meeting. I think that the foundation is there from an understanding of what it is that we’re trying to accomplish. If you were in there and you...

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course...

Failure fear people who pursue success, cause their bravery to become successful is far more than failure to understand.

Before any change for the better can take place, a level of understanding is always needed; because without understanding we tend to fall back on the automatic responses and reactions that we have built up...

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself...

Do you think things always have an explanation? “Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we’re not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just...

A few weeks ago I had a dream. I dreamed I was back at the house, in the red room, reading my microeconomics textbook. Maddy outside playing with Hope, and Agnes was preparing dinner. It...

Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.

The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you–the circumstances that twisted them,...

A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger; focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at!

Being heartbroken doesn’t mean you stop feeling. Just the opposite — it means you feel it all more. With your heart in fragments, every sensation is sharper, every emotion more acute. Your feelings are enhanced,...

There is the truth , the perception of truth, and versions that don’t even come close; but it’s the perception that creates the most conflict every time.

You are the very creator and co-creator of your own reality. When you allow yourself to remember what you already know about yourself on the spirit level, you shine the light of unconditional love, compassion...

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental...

Unfortunately most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis of Cerion’s general pattern required that two predictions be affirmed (or else we were in trouble): this population...

Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding...

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child’s eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way – is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible, towards...

It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator...

Your commitment is to action alone, not to the fruits of action. That must never be: you must not be motivated by the fruits of your actions. Yet you must not become attached to inaction....

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.

Our emotions hold more power over us than blade or poison alike. To embrace freely the entire spectrum of our emotions is to allow a multitude of Trojan horses containing hidden emotional poisons to circumvent...

If we do not judge flow of life by the limited human understanding, we will flow through life calmly and effortlessly.

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

credo ut intelligam. (i believe so i can understand).

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most...

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree...

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it

The more one understands the world…the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood.” Dakpo to Shan

To understand involves the intellect, but to be understanding involves the heart.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Long before they had ever met, I think this destiny awaited them. They were not like ships passing in the night. It wasn’t like they didn’t understand each other. They understood each other better than...

If I live for you, I can fulfill your happiness, but if you allow me to then you don’t care about mine.

Even the right is wrong from the other side.

Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our...

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.