Quotes About Understanding

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.

What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.

I can understand that people who have a very different view to mine are motivated by the purest of motives. All I ask is that they might give the same benefit of the doubt to those with whom they might disagree with.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

Had I not stepped into the saddle in the first place, entire cultures, histories, and most importantly, profound connections with people and animals whom I now counted as my friends would have otherwise passed by, invisible.

There are people with Asperger's whom I've met who certainly would be very upset to learn they'd hurt another person's feelings. They often have very strong moral consciences and moral codes. They care about not hurting people.