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.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical.

There are those who know and those who don’t know. And for every ten thousand who don’t know there’s only one who knows. That’s the miracle of all time–the fact that these millions know so...

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

the underlying struggle – between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values...

Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I...

Every act intends some good.

Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar – Oromis

We’re very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they’re beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can’t...

I read a page of Plato’s great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their own heavenly brightness, to be sure, there shines an even brighter,...

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don’t have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to...

We have to make mistakes, it’s how we learn compassion for others.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive...

We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us

True love is born from understanding.

I’m an understanding guy, even when I’m standing over you.

The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear...

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,...

[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...

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....