I’m the man that’ll make your nights shine bright like day light.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few.

For a woman’s words to wound would require a man to listen first!

It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.

Trzymajcie się z dala od człowieka, który pracował w pocie czoła nad rozwiązaniem jakiejś zagadki, rozwiązał ją i stwierdził, że nie jest mądrzejszy niż przedtem – powiada Bokonon. – Przepełnia go bowiem mordercza pogarda do...

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we...

We’re taking better shots at this point in the season. Everyone is understanding where they need to be on the floor without the ball. We’re just trying to learn as we go and adjust as...

Cognition begins with sensation.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don’t know how you knew, but you did, and...

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don’t always agree about things we can still love and look out for each...

If you could do one thing to improve yourself today, it would be this: Rid yourself of bias. If you can do this, you can learn to listen. If you learn to listen, then you...

it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones (even...

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding…

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

Thank you, Christopher Robin. You’re the only one who seems to understand about tails. They don’t think — that’s what’s the matter with some of these others. They’ve no imagination. A tail isn’t a tail...

Time to Appreciate

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

Live, share and learn the art of true deep listening. The main keys are honesty and humility.Cultivate good filters in the mind. Conquer and tame the ego. If words and actions pass from your lips,...

He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day’s events […] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.

I have received the favor of your letter of August 17th, and with it the volume you were so kind as to send me on the Literature of Negroes. Be assured that no person living...

I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

…the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped, what the wanted; tricks of rhetoric would not shift them.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and...

He has a very good understanding of where the president wants to go, he has a good understanding of the process, and he has good relations with other people in the process.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

It is almost as if ideas set in mathematical form melt and become liquid and just as rivers can, from the most humble beginnings, flow for thousands of miles, through the most varied topography bringing...

To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is...

I don’t understand the game of Cricket. But I do get the game of Noisy Night Insect.

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos…...

One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear.

Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they serve us...

True friends never turn you away when all you need is someone to talk to. Ever. It’s not the only thing that helps, but it’s the only thing that works. Real friends never walk away,...

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.

I knew in that moment that everything happens for a reason, but we can’t always know the reason when the journey begins. Some things we can only understand at the end of our journey.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

We have an understanding of what is good for her and what produces good results.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

When we understand who we are, and how our realities work, we can choose more consciously to shape our lives in an optimal way. Knowledge of oneself is the very key to a happy life....

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another...

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read “Dora Thorne,” or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now...

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

I’d like to distribute (the pamphlets) to all those concerned so that their understanding on the abduction issue would be deepened.

When I became convinced that the Universe is natural – that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the...