Quotes About Understanding

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.

Phil is of a generation that probably would have been happier never getting married. He just doesn't want to get married again; it's not that he doesn't want to marry me. It took me a while to understand that, and I'm fine with it now. We've been together for over 10 years. This relationship has been my longest and most successful.

You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.

The podcast is a bit like a phone call, except you don't say anything.

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

These people dissing Dr. Dre, they need to get off their cell phones for about a week and come back to reality. They have no idea. Do what he did and then talk to me.