The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world … is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, the possible.

It’s not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There’s a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

For so long, I hadn’t really heard Margo – I’d seen her screaming and thought her laughing – that now I figured it was my job. To try, even at this great remove, to hear...

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

You’ll never know the the outcome unless you just go out there and just do it.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

The accountant lingers at his children’s doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost – but he know that’s...

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it....

Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind.

It’s either a lack of understanding or he doesn’t care.

He who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Ah! A man who doesn’t know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can’t see it. And you’d never ask someone...

You’re elegance in a misunderstood form. Crystal quartz in a world of platinum. Oh, my dizzy boy, there’s a fire in you that I use to warm my hands on chilly mornings.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal...

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.

I’ve found out so much about electricity that I’ve reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain nothing.[Describing his experiments with the Leyden jar.]

Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new awarenesses. Although we have always prided ourselves on our willingness to...

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s...

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

All I can say is, it’s a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill...

Second, I’m also not allowed to break your damn heart. And last, I’m not allowed to fucking break your damn heart.

There’s a logical reason for everything in the universe even if we cannot comprehend, understand, or express that reason.

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one’s judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool...

Yes, our goal as Christians should be to do away with the things in our world that keep people from knowing the love and freedom of Christ. Equally, and maybe more so, our goal should...

She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding. Her active living...

You stupid fool, you know very well it’s not a short novel, but something longer…A piece of work you’ve got to buckle down to, that needs peace and concentration. Being able to wake up in...

[When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]Oh, no. Absolutely not… The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to...

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

I’m taller in tolerance than I am in height. Barely. I’m only 6’3, so I apologize for not being more understanding.

A ști anumite lucruri pe de rost îți conferă capacitatea unei înțelegeri superioare.

People say: ‘Let the facts speak for themselves’; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood.

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they’d never blossom.

Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding.

Gus has a good understanding of the offence. He’s very knowledgeable, and we felt he would give us the best opportunity to be successful and develop this offensive team.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one’s words does not carve out a direct path for itself,...

Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you...

she enetered the room and the entire crowd stopped, who was she? even in a million moons; you will never understand her, for she is to mysterious to presume and too wise to share her...

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds,...

What we call the Lord’s prayer is actually the Disciple’s Prayer because It says “Forgive us our trespasses” and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I...

and afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to… I don’t know…. explode, and it was just too much, I had to let it out you...