Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with regard to the sources of our knowledge of human nature. Psychology, ethnology, anthropology,...

Love does not depend on understanding; understanding depends on love.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn’t suck.

Do you understand? I don’t want you to do a thing if you don’t understand it.

One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.

Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?”One child said, “The misuse of power is the root of all evil?”Alice said, “Well….”Another child...

Logic only tells us what’s there; it can’t really address what isn’t. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

Haven’t you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind – isn’t anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right...

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.

[Los alumnos de Almafitano aprendieron…]Que la principal enseñanza de la literatura era la valentía, una valentía rara, como un pozo de piedra en medio de un paisaje lacustre, una valentía semejante a un torbellino y...

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would...

And that is to say, of course, that you can “read” a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the...

Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.

…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.