Quotes About Understanding

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine