Quotes About Understanding

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don't look attentively, if you don't go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering volcano in me, you are not it.

It's just that I'd rather get to know you before I get to know your lips.

Rich wisdom is better even than rich soil, young Neil. Jose sees now that you grow in wisdom like a weed in manure.

Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

One uttered word of explanation is wrong,

The ordinary is immune to understanding because it cannot be placed outside human experience for examination.

34. Beneath Each Knowing There is mystery because there is not-knowing. Yet beneath each knowing is the next not-knowing. So each knowing deepens the mystery. Yet even in knowing there is the mystery of knowing.

Too many salesmen, I found, would make a good presentation and convince the client, but they couldn't recognize that critical moment when they should have stopped talking. If

If the mind were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple to understand it.

As Einstein said, "Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.")

One view is that philosophy is a kind of halfway house for questions that have not yet yielded to the scientific method.

If understanding language and other phenomena through statistical analysis does not count as true understanding, then humans have no understanding either.

Even though we think we see the world so fully, what we are receiving is really just hints

The enchantment of intelligence seems to be reduced to "nothing" when we fully understand its methods. The mystery that is left is the intrigue inspired by the remaining, not as yet understood methods of intelligence.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered." —R. W. Young

Our everyday "commonsense" knowledge as a human being is even greater; "street smarts" actually require substantially more of our neocortex than "book smarts." Including this brings our estimate to well over 100 million patterns, taking into account the redundancy factor of about 100.