Quotes About Understanding

To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

In order to like someone you don't necessarily need to agree with them. It's part of our nature to want to connect.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.

Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.