Quotes About Understanding

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain.

To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions.

It seems, as one becomes older, / That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence," wrote T. S. Eliot. Four Quartets, which meditates on time, age, and memory, goes on to say, "We had the experience but missed the meaning, / And approach to the meaning restores the experience / In a different form, beyond any meaning.

If you forgive people enough, you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not - squatter's rights of the heart

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

You don't have to have a boyfriend or a girlfriend to know love. Just open up your heart and let the world in. Your heart is bigger than you can imagine, and so is the world, and so, granddaughter, are you. —Addie's grandmother

Maybe this is what it's like for all only children: To love the family that isn't almost as much as the one that is.

Because when you get down to it, thinking of somebody as 100% human seriously gets in the way of hating them.

Dogen tells us to "cease practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate yourself.

But, actually, an affordance is neither an objective property nor a subjective property; or it is both if you like. An affordance cuts across the dichotomy of subjective-objective and helps us to understand its inadequacy. It is equally a fact of the environment and a fact of behavior. It is both physical and psychical, yet neither. An affordance points both ways, to the environment and to the observer.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to becoming partly a dog.

To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.

This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.

Physics is not about having memorized all the answers, but rather about asking the right questions. For when the right question is posed of a phenomenon, either the answer becomes clear or at least a path to further and more fruitful questioning is revealed.

the goal of a mapping effort isn't to complete an artifact, but to address the challenges the diagrams help discover and understand. Diagrams

Empathy is about seeing the world through someone else's eyes. It's about an implicit sense of what an experience is like, what people value, and what emotions are involved

The mind constructs small-scale models of reality to anticipate events, to reason, and to underlie explanation.

Do you fall in love with someone because you understand them? Not at nineteen. It's their otherness that draws you in. At nineteen you're collecting people. Trying on different ways of being.

From listening comes knowledge; From knowledge comes understanding; From understanding comes wisdom; From wisdom comes well-being.