Quotes About Understanding

Her love was still a young girl's adoration for a man she could not understand, a man who possessed all the qualities she did not own but which she admired. He was still a young girl's dream of the Perfect Knight and her dream asked no more than acknowledgment of his love, went no further than hopes of a kiss.

It was awful for a man to know what women really thought about and talked about. It made a girl feel positively undressed.

Like must marry like or there'll be no happiness.

All she could think of was that she loved him--everything about him, from the proud lift of his gold head to his slender dark boots, loved his laughter even when it mystified her, loved his bewildering silences.

Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

without knowing why, she found it comforting to be in his presence.

Oh, Pa," cried Scarlett impatiently, "if I married him, I'd change all that!" "Oh, you would, would you now?" said Gerald testily, shooting a sharp look at her. "Then it's little enough you are knowing of any man living, let alone Ashley. No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don't you be forgetting that.

Do you really mean they like it? You wouldn't fox an old friend, would you?' – in response to Lois Cole's telegram announcing that Macmillan liked the book that would become known as Gone With the Wind.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.