Quotes About Understanding

Porque la clave está en que las cosas sucedan sin palabras, en que sean en silencio.

Cuando no se pueden decir las cosas, las miradas se cargan de palabras.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues.

Would you do it if you were me? If I was you I'd do whatever you would do.

The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.

Alone in the silence, I understand for a moment the dread which many feel in the presence of primeval desert, the unconscious fear which compels them to tame, alter or destroy what they cannot understand, to reduce the wild and prehuman to human dimensions. Anything rather than confront directly the antehuman, that other world which frightens not through danger or hostility but in something far worse - its implacable indifference.

Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Lady, you can't fuck a metaphor.

You don't see anything, do you? You see everything but the goddamn mind; you see all the little specs and crap, but you don't see what goes on, do you?

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking.

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking. —Albert Einstein

The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown.

As you learn more, the fundamentals become at once simpler but also subtler, deeper, more nuanced, and more meaningful.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B. F. Skinner

Mistakes, loss, and failure are all flashing lights clearly pointing the way to deeper understanding and creative solutions.

The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that.

Setting a higher bar for yourself for what you mean by understanding can revolutionize how you perceive the world.

Whenever you "see" an issue or "understand" a concept, be conscious of the lens through which you're viewing the subject. You should assume you're introducing bias. The challenge remains to identify and let go of that bias or the assumptions you bring, and actively work to see and understand the subject anew.