Quotes About Understanding

Again, I repeat, don't ask questions you don't want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.