Quotes About Understanding

His talent was appearing to understand obvious realities that other people could not see, expressed with the kind of self-assurance that can only come from extreme wealth.

I'm sure I could have read the entire four-thousand-page plot summarized in four hundred words on Wikipedia, or I could simply walk into any high school and ask a few questions of the first kid I find who isn't smoking crystal meth.

If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can't just try to see the other side of an argument. That's not enough. You have to go all the way. Over

Long ago, lawyers realized that they could make themselves culturally essential if they made the vernacular of contracts too complex for anyone to understand except themselves. They made the language of contracts unreadable on purpose.

It's impossible to understand the world of today until today has become tomorrow.

The compulsion to reconsider the past through the ideals and beliefs of the present is constant and overwhelming. It allows for a sense of moral clarity and feels more enlightened. But it's actually just easier than trying to understand how things felt when they originally occurred.

I don't need to personally agree with something in order to recognize that it's true.

Over time,[*] the Google algorithm created something that had never previously existed: a consensus about the shared understanding of everything.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.

I know this because Tyler knows this.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.