Quotes About Understanding

Christ, will I ever find someone who is not crying inside?

In complex trains of thought, signs are indispensable.

If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, "Peace, child; you don't understand."

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the universe in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

Miracles in fact are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

But answer came there none—And this was scarcely odd, becauseThey'd eaten every one.

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.

"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,Tropics, Zones and Meridian Lines?"So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply,"They are merely conventional signs!"

"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on."I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know.""Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"

Loving underlies effective learning: indeed, it is the basis of all cultural transference and interchange. No teaching machine can supply this.

Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.

I urge my critics to get passports and see the world.

Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.

Love is poetry. To fall in love with a person is like understanding a deep, moving poem. Noticing every little detail. To see what the poet shows, to smell what he describes and the urge to taste the intangible.

The art works of women, who are intelligent and creative, need to be showcased and understanding their thoughts through art can definitely urge us to support them better.

Jordan had phenomenal talent. He had phenomenal understanding. But he also had a mentality that I haven't seen. He had a sense of urgency every time he stepped on the floor.

I spent two years in Cairo, and I felt a certain urgency about trying to understand the region and the conflict here, in the modest way that a journalist might be able to try and shed some understanding and enlightenment on a region that is profoundly conflicted, and a conflict that has real consequences for Americans.