… 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...

The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming...

I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,And I look at flowers and I smile…I don’t know if they understand meOr if I understand them,But I know the truth is in...

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.

Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them

Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

When you speak, be sure of what you are speaking. Don’t be rambling full of words that have no integrity or truth. Nobody wants to confide in you when they doubt what you say. If...

[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. Nay, the very incident which, by my theory, must in some degree estrange me and him, changed, indeed,...

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people’s perception of you rather than people’s perception of you.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? … the skeleton of our understanding, … and actually they are the majority. … We have here a problem that...

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

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.