Quotes About Understanding

Never make a calculation until you know the answer.

Recent decades have taught us that physics is a magic window. It shows us the illusion that lies behind reality—and the reality that lies behind illusion. Its scope is immensely greater than we one realized. We are no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, or fields of force, or geometry, or even space and time. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.

We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As the island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Don't complain, criticize and condemn people. Let your friends feel loved in your presence.

Friendship unveils potentials and abilities.

Friendship helps you to know people better and faster.

Friendship unlocks destinies.

Just begin with friendship, and many relationships will follow.

Never stay in love without friendship.

The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

You and IAre suddenly what the trees tryTo tell us we are:That their merely being thereMeans something; that soonWe may touch, love, explain.

Try a little subtlety in self-defense; it'll help, you'll find out.

You have to try to imagine an ideal reader, who's neither stupid nor able to know what your thoughts are.

We never live long enough in our lives to know what today is like. — John Ashbery, from "The Improvement," And the Stars were Shining (Noonday Press, 1994)

You meant more than life to me. I lived through you not knowing, not knowing I was living.

Something Ought to be written about how this affects Something Ought to be written about how this affects You when you write poetry: The extreme austerity of an almost empty mind Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate Something between breaths, if only for the sake Of others and their desire to understand you and desert you For other centers of communication, so that understanding May begin, and in doing so be undone.

People are smarter than you might think.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

If the holiness of God is not perceived and understood, then the entire work and conduct of God are not grasped.'29

A paradox is something which tests your spiritual eyesight.

A leader's job is to bring people together for a common purpose, so credibility is critical. That will only come when people trust their leader and want to follow his or her lead. Communication opens the door to understanding what the leader is and what he or she stands for.

We did our best, Anna and I. We forgave each other for all we were not.

Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence. "There is much I don't understand." "That will never change," Mortis said decisively. "Except that what you don't understand will change.