Quotes About Understanding

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind.

You know, Martin, most of us learn in grade school that saying things like 'I'm so lonely' doesn't impress women.

A friend understands what you're going through enough and can help you through it. A best friend Understands what you're going through too much and ,frankly, it's giving them a headache.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.

The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.

Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)

The disciples had been taught the Old Testament Scriptures their entire lives. They had followed Jesus Himself for three years. But only when He opened their minds did they begin to understand. Only when the risen Christ gave them eyes to see did they begin to recognize the shadow of the New Covenant in the Old, and to view the Old Covenant in the light of the New.

Friends are supposed to minimize your shortcomings and maximize your attributes.

I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.

Love is kind, right? It's not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.

And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but without dumbing it down. You know, art - the more you know about it, the more you enjoy it.

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

I would love to be able to have a brain that just captures everything.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.