Quotes About Understanding

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

I think telepathy exists, and I think quantum physics will help us understand its basic properties.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism. I never thought it was an option.

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.

I believe if we only are talking to people who agree with us, we are failing in some way to understand our world and our country.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.