Quotes About Understanding

Beliefs are things to be cherished but we cannot be intolerant of others whose beliefs we disagree with. That intolerance can lead to war and even murder.

There has been too much destruction of knowledge simply because someone else disagrees with it. In a civilised world, there is room for all knowledge and the truth will eventually emerge triumphant over prejudice. If we do not believe that, then there is no hope for us. We might as well resort to living as wild animals.

Publilius Syrus say: amare et sapere vix deo conced-itur? Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.

Books that would have helped us understand our past, without which we are condemned to live in ignorance

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Ein Philosoph ist ein Mann, der in Ermangelung einer Frau die ganze Welt umarmt.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Thats the thing about pain, it demands to be felt

Pain demands to be felt.

The important thing is not what nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

The past is no Roman road, but more often a maze...

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. —MARK TWAIN

For many scientists, as Lyotard concedes, scientific knowledge is the only form of knowledge there is, but if so, how then do we understand fairy stories and law?

It seems to me a case of negligence if, after becoming firm in our faith, we do not strive to understand what we believe.

The proper concern of natural science is not what God could do if he wished, but what he has done; that is, what happens in the world "according to the inherent causes of nature".'30 Aristotle had said that 'to know . . . is to understand the causes of things'.31 We see here, in Albertus, the first

It's really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know 'em. We're all beautiful.

I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke's liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one's looking.

Nobody gets a good view of a system from the inside, no matter who they are. The view's distorted.

PROBLEMS CANNOT BE SOLVED AT THE SAME LEVEL OF AWARENESS THAT CREATED THEM. –ALBERT EINSTEIN

But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke's liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one's looking.

NOT UNTIL WE ARE LOST DO WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES. —Henry David Thoreau

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." —Emerson M. Pugh

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?