Quotes About Understanding

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Folly is that wisdom which is wise only behindhand.

Dante Alighieri] is world-great not because he is world-wide but because he is world-deep.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

and do not rebuff them, but speak to them in kindly terms. 24. ?And lower the wing of humility to them out of compassion, and say,

I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.

Thus for some 4,400 years the people living in closest association with honeybees have focused on devising housing arrangements for bees that serve human purposes and have largely ignored what the bees' themselves seek in a home.

The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity." —Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in physics

The one who knows much about anything knows far better than the uneducated how much he does not know about it.

I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.

It's funny that through learning how to physically fight, you also learn how to navigate really complicated and hard conversations with people.

Girls are really resentful to their fathers when they don't get a chance to spend time with them, but now that my daughter knows everything I say damn near will come true or damn near is what it is, she loves me for that, she respects me for it, and I feel the same way with her.

I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing.

Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.

It's neat seeing people that aren't necessarily part of my demographic who really get the jokes. I love it.