Quotes About Understanding

I can't understand why people can't go on just being ordinary to each other even if they are in love.

People's hearts are often opened when they speak freely.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

The fatal futility of Fact.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

There are few things more exciting to me… than a psychological reason.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they would appear to different grades of intelligence, different classes of people, different sections of the country. More than once this many-sidedness of his mind saved the country from ruin.

These details are few and meager. It is not easy for us, in the midst of the luxuries, comforts, and necessities of a later civilization, to realize the conditions of western life previous to 1825. But the situation must be understood if one is to know the life of the boy Lincoln.

Patience, earnestness, tenderness, sympathy--these are sometimes the gifts which are sent by the messenger Sorrow.

Even for a child, the major component of lipreading is guesswork. It's often said that only 30 to 40 percent of lipreading is actual "reading" of each word; the rest is "context guessing" to fill in the gaps between the words that are actually understood.

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

America must distill a common understanding with a country that is the central eventual prize targeted by both the Sunni and the Shia versions of jihad and whose efforts, however circuitous, will be essential in fostering a constructive regional evolution.

When information is contextualized, it becomes knowledge. When knowledge compels convictions, it becomes wisdom.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternising with the enemy.

can the need for philosophy be met by humans assisted by AIs, which interpret and thus understand the world differently?

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

We lauhed together for a long time. When we had first met, her eyes were dull with pain-killing drugs and if she tried to talk, her face would controt with agonizing pain. I thought how radiantly beautiful she now looked. She stood up to leave and went to the door but then came back and kissed me. `I hope I never see you again,' she said. `I quite understand,' I replied.