No one could possibly understand my purest feelings but I couldn’t care less; My deepest yearnings are nobody’s goddamn business anyway

The wave is the signature of every experience of life. By understanding the nature of waves and their characteristics, and applying that understanding to our lives, we can navigate life with a little more grace.

I think he’s beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

1887A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave.

{On the death of Hale’s esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank. Burbank was much beloved by the population unil in an interview he revealed that he was an atheist. After this, the public turned...

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

What,” “how,” “when,” etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask “why” is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect.

Knowing me better than I think anyone shouldExcept, perhapsNo, probablyNo, definitelyDefinitely except you

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when...

The Maestro spoke again. “When we are not, at what point do we become?” I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his...

The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success

The cardinal’s understanding is that he’ll be here another two years or so,

I hold the hands of people I never touch.I provide comfort to people I never embrace.I watch people walk into brick walls, the same ones over and over again, and I coax them to turn...

make” the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.

It is not for you to say – you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently forgotten what blood you shed, and what extremities you proceeded to in the...

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding…

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

Thank you, Christopher Robin. You’re the only one who seems to understand about tails. They don’t think — that’s what’s the matter with some of these others. They’ve no imagination. A tail isn’t a tail...

Time to Appreciate

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:”Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want...

You may be going through a storm right now, but understand that the sun will shine again. It is during the storm that you learn the lesson. You can either let it make you or...

We sat in the car & the night droppeddown until the only sounds werethe crickets &the dance of our voices& for a momentthe world becamesmall enough toroll back & forth between us.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

We men are fascinated by the things we don’t really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent’s position better than his opponent.

I like to say, but saying is too much.” We understand not the same.

…unlike knowledge, understanding cannot be taught. It must be achieved.

Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of...

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better...

Women, if I understood them half as well as I understand fractions, I’d have said a third. But I don’t have time for a third, or even my other half, because I spend all my...

Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence.”There is much I don’t understand.””That will never change,” Mortis said decisively. “Except that what you don’t understand will change.

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty...

How something can be so soft and so loud at the same time. It’s almost like it isn’t there at all, isn’t it?” The song ends. And in this moment, as the sun sets outside,...

I’m the man that’ll make your nights shine bright like day light.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few.

For a woman’s words to wound would require a man to listen first!

It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.

Trzymajcie się z dala od człowieka, który pracował w pocie czoła nad rozwiązaniem jakiejś zagadki, rozwiązał ją i stwierdził, że nie jest mądrzejszy niż przedtem – powiada Bokonon. – Przepełnia go bowiem mordercza pogarda do...

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we...

We’re taking better shots at this point in the season. Everyone is understanding where they need to be on the floor without the ball. We’re just trying to learn as we go and adjust as...

Cognition begins with sensation.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don’t know how you knew, but you did, and...

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don’t always agree about things we can still love and look out for each...