Quotes About Understanding

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

The body is a universal language. Because if you spoke French, and I speak English, but I move like this or do certain movements, I can still make you smile and laugh.

Music is the universal language that everyone can understand.

Football is a universal language.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Music truly is the universal language.

Music is really powerful. It's a universal language that connects everyone.

When you're on the court with guys that know basketball, it's a universal language for us.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is the contribution Africa will make to the world of the future - an injection of sanity into the environment of the universe itself.

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.