Quotes About Understanding

To draw close to Divinity is to come to appreciate man as a divine creation, for "If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 343).

the implications of the amazing new fact of nature called nonlocality cannot be properly understood without some familiarity with the actual history of scientific thought.

ventured a couple of negative comments about her father, and never tried it again. "It was

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

In Sergeant McCaustic I had found my personal hair shirt. We had come to an understanding within a day or two; that is, we had agreed that we were incompatible.

If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right?" His father laughed but didn't answer.

Xander could sense more than David's smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn't seen what Xander had seen.

I observe that humans are far too possessive about their ideas, as if ideas would have no existence if they didn't think them. Well,, let me tell you, as a dog I know for sure that I am visited by ideas all the time, and I have never once thought one into existence. Humans don't understand ideas. They think their brain makes them.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

i don't believe i've ever been more certain than I am now that the development and understanding of man's workmanship is the fundamental need of man's spirit; or that we can never look for healthy social body until that need,among others, is fed.

the task of the ethnographer is not to determine "the truth" but to reveal the multiple truths apparent in others' lives.

As Obama would tell me one occasion, "I can't defend it unless I understand it." I rarely saw him rush to a decision when circumstances allowed him time to gather information, analyze, and reflect...When the occasion demand it, though, Obama could make a big decision - a life-and-death decision - very fast." Page 299

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.