Quotes About Understanding

Es ist sehr nett, verheiratet zu sein. Man muss nur wissen, dass zwei Menschen niemals ein Herz und eine Seele haben können. Sie bleiben immer zwei Leute, zwei Herzen. Es kommt nur darauf an, angenehm nebeneinander zu leben und doch nie allein zu sein.

The first step toward persuading others is an evident and sincere willingness to be persuaded yourself.

She invites us to smile at the quirks of human nature, not at simple virtue.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Did she need succor so badly that she bore a keen sense when others needed it?

We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find.

Love does not require taking an uncritical stance toward the object of one's affections.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Mysticism is the most scientific form of religion, for it bases itself, as does all science, on experience and experiment—experiment being only a specialised form of experience, devised either to discover or to verify.

To see, to know, to understand, even though the seeing blind, though the knowledge sadden, though the understanding shatter the dearest hopes—such has ever been the craving of the upward-striving mind in man.

Religions are branches from a common trunk - Divine Wisdom.

The more ignorant the man, the more he thinks he can grasp. The less he understands, the more he resents being told that there are some things beyond the grasp of his intellect, existences so mighty that he cannot even dream of the lowest of the attributes that mark them out.

friendship... it's such a leap of faith

not all situations are appropriate for truthseeking, nor are all people interested in the pursuit.

Making better decisions starts with understanding this: uncertainty can work a lot of mischief.

Memory creep is the reconstruction of your memory of what you knew that hindsight bias creates. MEMORY CREEP When what you know after the fact creeps into your memory of what you knew before the fact.

This makes us more compassionate, both toward ourselves and others. Treating outcome fielding as bets constantly reminds us outcomes are rarely attributable to a single cause and there is almost always uncertainty in figuring out the various causes.

Even though the importance of making quality decisions seems obvious, it's surprising how few people can actually articulate what a good decision process looks like.

Now for the bad news: Being smart doesn't make you less susceptible to the inside view. If anything, it makes it worse. It straps your beliefs into the driver's seat more firmly. Research across a variety of settings has shown that being smart makes you better at motivated reasoning, the tendency to reason about information to confirm your prior beliefs and arrive at the conclusion you desire.

Be thankful when people disagree with you in good faith because they are being kind when they do.

Resulting makes us lack compassion for ourselves and others.

Hindsight bias, like resulting, makes us lack compassion for ourselves and others.

The way we process new information is driven by the beliefs we hold, strengthening them.

Porque por encima de todas las razones sociales y psicológicas que pueda encontrar a lo que viví, hay una de la cual estoy totalmente segura: esas cosas me ocurrieron para que diera cuenta de ellas. Y quizás el verdadero objetivo de mi cuerpo, mis sensaciones y mis pensamientos se conviertan en escritura, es decir, en algo inteligible y general, y que mi experiencia pase a disolverse completamente en la cabeza y en la vida de otros.