Quotes About Understanding

The Internet makes everything much less mysterious.

It's a mysterious thing, music. You're just never sure. You 'get' it, but does anyone else even get a chance to know it exists? And if they do, are they gonna feel about it like you feel? When they do, it feels great.

Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

A full understanding of what happens in our everyday lives needs to take into account what happened at the Big Bang. And not only is that intrinsically interesting and just kind of cool to think about, but it's also a mystery that is not given much attention by working scientists; it's a little bit underappreciated.

Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.

People, whether they be male or female, are equally a mystery to me.

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

I can be a nag. And my mother can be a nag. It's a nagging relationship, but we know that it's loving.

Chemistry is one of those things: it's hard to nail down what it is or how you get it.

A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.

You don't grow up naive in Africa.

I had a lot of friends for a long time who were gay, and I didn't even realize it for awhile. Even in my mid- to late 20s, I was still pretty naive about it.

It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.

I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

I'm not as naive as some people think.

I'm not naive.

I am not delusional. Listen, I am not naive to the fact that people are not shouting my name all over the state of California.

What I heard my mom always say was that, while she was never naive, she understood the FBI's intent was, obviously, to break up the family.