Quotes About Understanding

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image.

there are innumerable things in life you can fathom only by experiencing them, that there is a depth in pure perception that cannot be grasped or invaded by thought or language.

Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.

To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.

You're not impressing anyone with the ten-dollar words, Boggs. Fewer adjectives, please. No one's giving you a PhD for this." Since then, Boggs strained to be as succinct as possible so as not to offend his GED-holding boss. As

Objectivity of whatever kind is not the test of reality. It is just one way of understanding reality.

Physical science has progressed by leaving the mind out of what it tries to explain, but there may be more to the world than can be understood by physical science.

The world is an astonishing place, and the idea that we have in our possession the basic tools needed to understand it is no more credible now than it was in Aristotle's day.