Quotes About Understanding

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

There is a tendency to attack some particular group of people and scapegoat them, but this is not the right attitude to cope with epidemics.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our speaking. This tendency often evinces itself in two simple words: 'I know.' But if I know everything, what can I learn? Absolutely nothing.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

You can think you know somebody. But when they're trying to punch you in the face, you really know somebody. You learn their tendencies.

There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.

We try to do a great job of understanding the opposing hitter and his tendencies. Maybe understand the hitter better than he knows himself.

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.

People pass a lot of judgment about each other in India, and that is a tendency I don't like.

You can only beat a guy down so far before he has a tendency to start listening to what you're saying.

We have a tendency to assume or believe saying I love you means we are ready for love, or that hearing it from someone else means they are ready. We just assume that we are on the same page about what it means. We don't know what someone else is thinking, projecting, assuming, expecting when they say that.

I think playing a long time with somebody, we know each other's tendency in our sleep.

Men can be tender, too.

I pray for John McArthur. I pray for, that God would tender his heart. I pray that he would have eyes of understanding.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and give them something to respond to and react against.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.