Quotes About Understanding

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Black Students, Middle Class Teachers by Jawanza Kunjufu.

I understood Einstein's general theory of relativity, which meant that I knew how to demonstrate every essential property of it in a page or less of concise and transparent work. It seemed to me that if you understood a theory, it shouldn't take weeks of calculations on an art pad to check its basic properties.

When someone answers a question about the foundations of a subject, it can change everything we know.

Science is not philosophers sitting in clouds. It is a human activity, as complex and problematic as any other.

So the challenge for any quantum theory of gravity is to give us a deeper understanding of Bekenstein's entropy and Hawking's temperature.

If you weren't fine, I wouldn't even bother with you.

Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.

This is it. This is what it really means. This is what it is all about.

Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.

I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.

My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I'm not enjoying it.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

I explained it loud and clear. What part of "meow" don't you understand?

In our limited understanding, I think we often try to work things out and then ask God to get involved. In reality, he expects us to wait on him—to trust him. Not in a passive way, though. Waiting means to leave the details to him while we go about the work he's put in front of us.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

Words are but the shining garments of Thought.

Our Reason walks with weary, bruiséd feet. But Intuition soars with wings complete. The conscious mind is not so much the man As that subconscious force that knows Life's plan.

For a love in the sky, you must well understand, Keeps up an unending desire, And a moment down here is eternity there To the lover who seeks to aspire.

All things bend to help the man Who seeks to harmonize His own free will with nature's plan, And prove himself most wise.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.