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,...

Love does not depend on understanding; understanding depends on love.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn’t suck.

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....

We can now see Antarctica melting. We have a number for the ice sheet. It’s a big step toward understanding how the sea level is going to change.

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a...

fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity,...

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one’s reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if...

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.

As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this...

While we have a better understanding of the Syrian position, differences remain between the Syrian and Israeli positions.

[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....