Quotes About Understanding

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

He don't know it's anything he can't know, the old man said. That's his trouble. He thinks if it's something he can't know then somebody smarter than him can tell him about it and he can know it just the same. And if you were to go there, the first thing he would do would be to test your head and tell you what you were thinking and howcome you were thinking it and what you ought to be thinking instead. And before long you wouldn't belong to your self no more, you would belong to him.

True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind.

He seemed to be a young man but he had a look of composed dissatisfaction as if he understood life thoroughly.

No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.

After a while he said, If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.

L'âme humaine est plus complexe et vaste que tout.

You should have a heart in order to feel other people's hearts.

If we knew how our body is made, we wouldn't dare move.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

We all know what it's like to want to have that support from our family members and the people that we love, especially our parents.

I know who famous people are, so I listen to them.

I don't set out to make movies about famous people, though I guess I have. I think what I set out to do is to try to understand things that we don't understand. Or to find out what is blocking us from understanding things we should understand.

I try to answer all my fan mail. Sometimes I get questions from people who obviously only read the Wiki but haven't read the books. I'm like, 'But you have to read the book or you're not going to get it.'

When you sit players in front of doctors and surgeons, they use big, fancy words, and sometimes players get lost. It's hard to digest. But when you've been there and you can break it down into 'football language,' they can understand it better.

My fans love me because I'm one of them.

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.

Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you.

We have our ears to the ground and have been listening to the farmers.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

I'm fascinated by female relationships.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.