Quotes About Understanding

Sabrina and me wasn't being

God knows why I should be that foolish

While I don't doubt your word, m'dear, I must point out that one person can never fully control another's actions.

You better think real carefully before you say anything, cateyes, because if you give me your love, I'm not going to let you take it back. I can't keep worrying about whether or not I can make you happy. I'll try my best but there isn't going to be any changing your mind later. Do you understand what I'm saying? If you're going to be my woman, there's no way in hell I'll ever let you go.

Her peculiarities must not be punished.

I especially love analogies, my most faithful masters, acquainted with all the secrets of nature… One should make great use of them.

Advertencia para idiotas. Pero a todo aquel que sea demasiado estúpido para comprender la ciencia astronómica, o demasiado pusilánime para creer a Copérnico sin que afecte a su fe, le aconsejaría que, una vez renunciado a los estudios astronómicos, y tras haber condenado todos aquellos estudios filosóficos que le plazca, se preocupe de sus asuntos y se vaya a su casa a escarbar su terruño

Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe

los impulsos que motivan muchas de nuestras conductas diarias se originan en procesos mentales de los que no somos conscientes, por más que luego podamos comprenderlos con gran rapidez.

To him the Bible was written not by God, but by inspired people, drawing from both history and experience, who sought to understand better the larger meaning of life and death.

If your partner rejects your efforts to regain your health, he or she should consider what it would feel like to be sleeping next to an empty place at night, instead of you. Encourage

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.

Humble people know their limitations: they know what they know, and they know what they do not know; they know what they can do or be, and they know what they cannot do or be

A manager will take six months to get to know his staff, but they will take only six days to get to know him

I have always endeavored to listen to chat each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion" (Mandela - p 31)

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

I certainly wish that all men could be Free, while you, I suppose, do not.

For example, knowing that it takes only about eleven and a half days for a million seconds to tick away, whereas almost thirty-two years are required for a billion seconds to pass, gives one a better grasp of the relative magnitudes of these two common numbers.

Jatkuvasti monimutkaistuvassa, järjettömiä yhteensattumia täynnä olevassa maailmassa ei monissa tilanteissa tarvita yhtään enempää tosiasioita – olemme nytkin jo hukkumassa niihin – vaan tunnettujen tosiasioiden parempaa ymmärtämistä...

We're obliged to acknowledge the limits of reason; and to acknowledge the necessary reality of the realms to which reason has no access.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduced to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot it's a sign our knowledge of them is very small and confused; and when a Mathematical Reasoning can be had it's as great a folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a Candle standing by you.