Quotes About Understanding

went out and grabbed Jobs's lawyer, Larry Sonsini, and asked what he thought Jobs wanted. "Beats me," Sonsini said. So Amelio went back behind closed doors with Jobs and gave it one more try. "Steve, what's on your mind? What are you feeling? Please

Tengo semejante fe en el ser humano que creo que hablar con las personas es mucho más importante que esforzarse en averiguar qué es lo que quieren hacer

la intuición no es más que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.»

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults 

There's a time to wink as well as to see 

What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.

The point is not at all that you are found interesting or fascinating instead of being seen as a fellow I. The shock is rather that you are not found interesting or fascinating at all: you are not recognized as an object any more than a subject. You are accepted, if at all, as one to be spoken at and spoken of; but when you are spoken of, the lord of every story will be I.

Thoughts are thoughts and that's all they are.

I could see tall ideas standing up behind his eyes.

They lived in a blurry world, those two, where clear, consistent intentions weren't required.

I'd forgotten this about women: so many conditions. A man shouldn't take them to heart, and yet he does, because he doesn't want to be alone.

epistemological

If you've helped someone die, there is nothing I can tell you. If you haven't, I don't want to tell you. But I must, or what came later may make no sense.

people, including types that I didn't like much at all but felt I had something to learn or to gain from.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds though which they have filtered it.

When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more than a thousand years.

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

It's hard for a man to understand a woman because a man just desires her; but women, most of them anyway, desire desire.