Quotes About Understanding

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.

As Upton Sinclair sardonically noted, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

She said she wanted to help little girls, mothers, prostitutes. he said this was a good idea because at present almost all who worked with these people had different sexual organs from their patients.

I don't know. That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

Matter is lazy. It resists change. It wants to keep on doing whatever it's doing, whether that's sitting still or moving. We call that laziness inertia, but that doesn't mean we understand it. For a thousand years we've labelled it, quantified it, caged it in equations, but we've still only scratched the surface of what it really is.

Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that. ~Understanding Space & Time

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Information is not knowledge.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.