Quotes About Understanding

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

A veces uno tiene que esperar a que las cosas sucedan por más que intuya lo que podría suceder, porque si no, te toman por loco.

Según me lo ha explicado ella, o según yo lo he entendido, se obedece porque conviene y se duda porque se piensa. Y si una cosa salva la vida, la otra al parecer salva el alma.

Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

Tautologies, according to Wittgenstein, are senseless, because, as they do not picture the world, they lack sense.

the importance of preserving the integrity of a non-scientific form of understanding, the kind of understanding characteristic of the arts and the kind of understanding that Goethe, Spengler and Wittgenstein sought to protect from the encroachment of science and scientism.

If we look at what women themselves had to say, we see that many were not overly enthusiastic about their men leaving home.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

I finally understand, I wasn't waiting to kill people, I was waiting to be killed...by a man like you...

and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great silence within can finally be decoded.

Moinous reaches for Sucette's hand and squeezes it. Oh but I do love you, I do, I swear, in spite of them. However, for the first time in his life Moinous understands what quicksand love is.

What people don't understand they just push away to the far corners of their minds and eventually it fades away and gets forgotten. 'Cause it's safer that way.

you can't reconcile religion with modern life, with all the knowledge we have, with science....

One must see everything.

Ironically, it was the completion of the Human Genome Project a decade ago that showed how little the genetic code told us about living organisms (and even less about complex ones such as us).

The events in computers do not amount to genuine understanding. Indeed, given that symbols are symbols only to someone who understands that they are symbols, events in computers considered in isolation from conscious human beings do not even amount to the processing of symbols. There is merely the passage of minute electric currents along circuits which may or may not cause other physical events to happen, such as the lighting up of a screen in a certain pattern.

Your desire for something due to your half knowledge about it is enough for you to fall into a pit.

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womans name and claim to love her.

You can pray for someone even if you dont think God exists.