Quotes About Understanding

The thing to hold on to in forgiving is that most often the people who are hurting us do not know what they are doing. In fact it is fair to say that none of us knows the impact of our actions in relationships, at least for a lot of the time. We are all unaware of our power to hurt and to heal.

Yank grunted. "That sums it up.

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

E' cattiva la gente che non ha provato il dolore, perchè quando si prova il dolore, non si può più voler male a nessuno

È proprio questo il bello di volersi bene: che c'è una persona alla quale si può dire tutto.

Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

reasonable people have difficulty conceiving and understanding unreasonable behavior.

Man 'knows', which is why he is always two : his life and his knowing.

Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us.

We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being.

The ability to understand something before it's observed is at the heart of scientific thinking.

What opens our minds and shows the limits of our ideas is an encounter with other people, other cultures, other ideas.

The world is complex, and we capture it with different languages, each appropriate to the process that we are describing.

Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.

Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same.

Probability does not refer to the system as such (the dice, the newspaper editor, the decaying atom, tomorrow's weather), but to the knowledge that I have about this system.

What I see, in other words, is not a reproduction of the external world. It is what I expect, corrected by what I can grasp. The relevant input is not that which confirms what we already know, but that which contradicts our expectations.

Quantum theory is of no direct help in understanding the mind.

Scientific answers are not definitive: they are, almost by definition, the best ones that we have at any given time. Consider

we have realized that it is our immediate intuitions that are imprecise:

Perhaps it is we who have not yet learned to look at it from just the right point of view, one that would reveal its hidden simplicity.

You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.

That which seems intuitive to us now is the result of scientific and philosophical elaborations in the past.