Quotes About Understanding

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

I could not possibly love one woman, having known the holiness of all women.

In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

T.S. Elliot: "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.'" "Oliver Wendell Holmes,

humankind's fundamental understanding of the nature of reality. If an observer could alter the universe by his observation, then didn't the universe require consciousness to even exist?

Make coffee, not war,

Intuition is just your subconscious putting together subtle clues and coming to a conclusion that your conscious mind hasn't quite reached. Since

Don't get me wrong," continued Jenna, "I have nothing against people with good working vocabularies. I'd like to think I have one. And sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

it's hidden, even from her." Frey laughed. "We both know that's not true anymore. I wasn't there in person,

Douglas E. Richards

sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

And as you've already seen," added the AI, "I can't even answer all of your questions about the how of it, as you put it.

Upton Sinclair?" "Yes. The quote is something like, 'It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

To sit on one tiny planet in an ocean of infinite infinities and believe you understood anything about the true nature of existence and reality was absurd.

even her intuition and knowledge of human nature were far from perfect. She understood it in the aggregate, but in any given situation, who knew?

Einstein had famously said, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

But while the West often failed to understand the motivations of these extremists, the extremists understood the motivations of the West only too well. They found the West soft. Gullible. Stupid. Its media easily manipulated.