Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn’t make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear… then his message was easily...

Each little update – each individual bit of social information – is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your...

I implore the atheist not to judge the religious and I implore the religious to not find fault with the atheist. Be a good religious person, or be a good atheist person. How? By putting...

T” truth that the wise spend their lives attempting to grasp.

And where,” Socrates smiled, “is the universe?””The universe is well, there are theories about how it’s shaped…””That’s not what I asked. Where is it?””I don’t know – how can I answer that?””That is the point....

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for...

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just...

If you know the why, you can live any how.

And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for ‘the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond the sphere of logic, subtle, and to be understood by the...

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one’s narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in...

Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you...

Many ask what difference does it make whether man believes in a God or not.It makes a big difference.It makes all the difference in the world.It is the difference between being right and being wrong;...

It’s my understanding he did pay the bills.

The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings

Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people’s shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls.

I really had no idea you’d be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me

My memories always clutch my brain to understand the past

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes...

Mama said it’s probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don’t think I really...

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I’m trying.

It’s a blindness thing, faith.

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers…

If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are...

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?

It’s harder to be afraid of something you understand

It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like....

Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.

I hope I can never trust my wife. If I trust her it means I know her. If I know her it means I understand her. If I understand her it means I can control...

Not everything is understood the way it is presented and not everyone presents the way it is understood.

Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others

Never chase a person, because if they want to be in your life, they will. It amazes me how people go out their way for someone who does nothing for them, doesn’t encourage or support...

scraps” that the abusive priests treated us like. They would use us as a scrap is used and then simply toss us aside. I was moved to tears. Holding it in my hands, I could...

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

Erklären heißt verzeihen, erklärt zu werden heißt Verzeihung erlangen […]

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.

You were…are…what I heard. Every note.

Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans?

Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason...

[The judge also said that a] memorandum of understanding … does not establish that any requested records are exempt from disclosure.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.