Quotes About Understanding

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Comedy is a tool to be used so that people can relate to each other.

I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they're looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately, complaining is maybe the least useful way to connect with other human beings.

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you're lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.