Quotes About Understanding

People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.

I had spent so much time studying literature at Stanford and the history of medicine at Cambridge in an attempt to better understand the particularities of death, only to come away feeling like they were still unknowable to me.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.

What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.

In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what's under the bed, it can still be frightening but that fear of the unknown is gone.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

People learn racism through dialogue. Somebody tells them about it. So if you can learn it through dialogue, you can also unlearn it through dialogue.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don't realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely enjoy what I'm doing, though.

Unless you know the individual, it's very difficult to advise that individual as to what he needs to do.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist.