Quotes About Understanding

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

I don't know what you're feeling, I won't even pretend

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

Your whole life informs your eye.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.