Quotes About Understanding

Man is indisputably endowed with reason; the problem is only how he uses his reason in the company of others.

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

The feeling of not being understood and of not understanding the world is no mere accompaniment of first passion, but its sole non-accidental cause. And the passion itself is a panic-stricken flight in which being together with the other means only a doubled solitude.

Knowledge may be power, but the reverse is not necessarily true.

A wise man listens when he has no words to speak.

You want to know something? You're all right, Andrew. You and Sara and Sean. You're all all right, have been all through these last few days, and I won't forget it." "Oh, sure." He put on his best Cockney accent. "We'ave been blooming wonders, we have. Three right ream and rorty coves." "Well, you have been—in spite of that shoful accent that you shouldn't even try.

No matter how tender you care about people, I was discovering, you'll not alter anyone. Best afford them the noblest gift that a man can offer his neighbor. Acceptance.

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Definitions are inherently limiting. They frame a static picture of something that is better perceived in movement, and they portray as "frozen 'statuary'" something that is better understood as a process.

The little things gather for a long time, but one morning you look in the mirror and you understand them in a flash.

Consciousness is the awareness of awareness.

Finding and knowing, rather than absorbing dictums, is what "deeper understanding" is. It is a conscious and direct perception of the unity of life, a removal of the mind's internal barriers to direct understanding and knowledge, and "seeing" truth on another level.

This landmark book shines new light on things we thought we understood. —Charles Swencionis

These stark divides prompt a simple but fundamental question: why can't White Christian America understand how African Americans feel about the black men who have died at the hands of white police officers? To

Instead of a fogged understanding, Austin suggests, we can attain greater insight into the mystery of our being – can, in fact, through the imaginative stories we tell ourselves, actuate increasingly improved contingent versions of human reality.

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

When one supports a certain radical position, one should know the conservative position that one is rejecting. What troubles me is the unexamined adoption of a radical stance.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

The point is that you figure out what that "audience" wants (not needs), and give them something right away that you know they'll love.

Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually simpler than you think them to be. Things are never as difficult and complicated as folk believe. You'd be surprised just how straightforward and obvious things really are. The secret is in knowing how to look at them the right way.

H. G. Wells once said that every word of which a man is ignorant represents an idea of which he is ignorant.

I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would question a Window concerning a Sight. I look thru' it not with it.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

The essence of having faith in what Jesus had faith in and being a Jesus Follower is to engage in a very simple but extraordinarily difficult practice that is best captured in a single word: empathy.