Quotes About Understanding

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.

How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Color does matter, even though people don't see it. I've lived it my whole life. It's just what I know.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

I don't know what's going on in America. I know what people in New York and Beverly Hills think about Whole Foods, but I don't know what people anywhere else think.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom.

To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.

When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.