Quotes About Understanding

It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds.

Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

I knew that I was naturally good at [therapy] because I was kind of that person in my circle of people in my life.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

If by now you're a little confused, don't be too hard on yourself. Life is confusing, and anyone who claims that she has all the answers has probably uncovered the wrong ones.

I would like to be known as someone who was really sweet but also knowledgeable in all areas of life.

I think maybe the key to having a long relationship is really appreciating that person's life and not trying to own it. It's like just stop trying. We all do it.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to know and understand oneself.

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.