Quotes About Understanding

Might we… be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness – of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. – fit into such a computational picture?

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

I've always had that attitude that things happen for a reason.

Things in life are never just black or white…They are many shades in between, so before you make a snap judgement consider what's going on around you…everyone is fighting some battle of their own and it's not all about you.

Sometimes, it means that you love them enough to let them go because you want them to be happy, and you realized that you're just not able to be happy together.

"You cannot let go of someone you never really had, and if you had them you wouldn't have to let go."

"Someone I loved once gave me a box of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift"

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.

It's been suggested that successful communication consists of 7 percent content, 38 percent tone of voice, and 55 percent nonverbal communication. We're usually aware of the content of what we're saying, but not nearly as aware of our tone of voice.

narrative is the principal way in which our species organizes its understanding of time.

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.

but if you do not even understand what words say how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

Realizing that our minds control our bodies while our bodies reflect our minds amounts to understanding the most fundamental aspects of ourselves. It further equals a comprehension of the relationship between our "tools." And since the mind and body are interrelated, this understanding makes it easier to see why coordinating them is a practical way of using these tools to greatest effect—a way of using the mind and body to live our lives as art.

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bush's mother knew enough to be in position with her children were ready to talk. She waited up not just to ensure safety but to make the most of the moment of excited emotions. The next morning, they would congeal into polite, one-word answers.

I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with clothing, ritual, self - hypnosis, imagination, or trans like states. Enlightenment requires understanding our true essence, understanding the true essence of God, understanding the true essence of the cosmos. Enlightenment is beyond all thought. Enlightenment can only be experienced. Enlightenment is transcendence.