Quotes About Understanding

God has revealed himself to us in his Son, Scripture, creation, and other ways, but so much of who he is remains incomprehensible.

Part of that likeness is to feel.

The degree to which you recognize and engage your own shadow is the degree to which you can free others to face theirs.

loving well is the essence of true spirituality.

I may not agree with you or you with me. Yet I can remain in relationship with you. I don't have to detach from you, reject you, avoid you, or criticize you to validate myself. I can be myself apart from you.

Few of us know the experience of being loved for being just who we are.

Den gamle kærlighed - at holde og blive holdt om, at sikre og være sikret, kærligheden pga. svaghed og fortvivlelse - har det lagt bag sig. Det lever i en kærlighed, der omfatter kærlighedsfjernhed og uelskethed, en kærlighed, der omfatter en ensomhed, som både er nøgtern og glødende, en kærlighed, der ikke vil noget bestemt og derfor er åben og til rådighed, en kærlighed, det heler kærlighedssår, idet den også elsker disse.

Diversity really does matter. Inviting people into the conversation who make you uncomfortable is a very good idea. Sometimes

Diversity really does matter. Inviting people into the conversation who make you uncomfortable is a very good idea.

Clarity is a result, not a requirement.

You've got the second-system problem where people who've had some success are given a blank slate and allowed to do whatever they want. Generally, they will fail because they'll be too ambitious, they won't understand the limits. And you get nothing out of that. You have to have extreme discipline to say, "It's not a blank slate; it's reimplementing what we had here; it's doing what we knew.

On the fourth hand, one reason I don't like IDEs quite so much is that they can make it hard to know when you've actually seen everything. Walking around in a graph, it's hard to know you've touched all the parts. Whereas if you've got some linear order, it's guaranteed to take you through everything.

I think the primary limitation on software is not the speed of computers but our ability to get our heads around what it's supposed to do.

The code shows me what it does. It doesn't show me what it's supposed to do.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

You have your words, and I have mine.

A lot of our most successful ideas over the years came from the bottom up, by really understanding user needs.

When you hold the world in your palm and inspect it only from a bird's-eye view, you tend to become arrogant— you do not realize that things get blurred when seen from an enormous distance," Yunus wrote.

A humanist is a person who can say: I am human, nothing written down is strange to me.

Mit jugendlichem Pathos hatte ich geglaubt, mich zwischen ihr und dem Schreiben entscheiden zu müssen, zwischen Liebe und Freiheit. Jetzt erst begriff ich, dass Liebe und Freiheit sich nicht ausschlossen, sondern bedingten, dass das eine nicht ohne das andere möglich war.

Und, dass es Glück war wird man erst aus der Distanz sehen.

Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I'm telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.

It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work.

We all have a memory and can memorise things. The more important thing is how we act on that which we know.