It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.

[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.]Sometimes the public says, ‘What’s in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get...

Satan does not care what you know. He only fears what you understand and apply. In fact, his assignment is to hinder your understanding.

Wisdom gives us the understanding that God has given us commandments for our benefit.

He felt the journal in his pocket. It was like a pair of glasses that he had worn for a time, enabling him to see a world he didn’t even know existed.

Never judge anyone as they have their own situation and different dimensions of looking at things and situations which you may not understand . . so Observe.

I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe that’s inherently impossible, because impressions are, by their very nature, cumulative –...

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except...

Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language...

A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.

At the limit it could be said that every speaking being has a personal language of his own, that is his own particular way of thinking and feeling. Culture, at its various levels, unifies in...

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very...

It was amazing to look at the difference in the two spray charts (from Wednesday). That’s understanding your approach, understanding your situation, understanding what the pitcher wants you to do, and then battling to not...

I’ve said this before, but people love you for so many reasons. Some love you only for what you do for them. Some love you for how much money you spend. Some love you for...

Not everyone has understanding, so everyone won’t understand

… but if I’ve learned one thing, it’s this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can’t forgive someone you’re mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go”… “people have...

It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see ‘the positive person’ or ‘the negative person’ in such a black and white way as many people do....

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work, where the author studies things of little use…{Writing about Isaac...

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

Or rather, he was sad because that morning he’d understood that he’d understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn’t sad at all, but now that he’d understood that he’d understood nothing he...

I’ll just quote myself for now; actually, I’ll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins responded to a post I made when I was feeling ‘pissy.'”Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society...

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

It is easy to fall, but hard to rise.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

I ain’t got no Visa, I ain’t got no Red American Express, We can’t go nowhere exotic, It don’t matter ’cause I’m decent and Loyal.

True best friends never fail on understanding, forgiving, and being there for one another no matter what situation that they might be in or having with one another because of the fact of that no...

If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal

He finally understood…the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky,...

It was my understanding that we’d be lucky to have him in the spring. He’s still working on getting healthy so he can compete better. At times, he just hasn’t felt comfortable enough with it.

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another’s point of view. This...

Shiva and Saleem, victor and victim; understand our rivalry, and you will gain understanding of the age in which you live. (The reverse of this statement is also true.)

Home is where ‘I know you’, ‘I accept you’, ‘I forgive you’, and ‘I love you’ are most likely to be heard.

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you...

He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I...

? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they are, not what we want or expect of them.” Margaret...

Sometimes to comprehend one’s message you have to use mirror or a water.

Curiosity leads to knowledge.Knowledge leads to understanding.Understanding leads to love.Love leads to harmony.Be curious.

We can say that wisdom causes us to know, while understanding enables us to act.

We have reached an understanding. The details of the alliance will be worked out soon.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively...

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently...

Life as we know it is our perception of reality.