Quotes About Understanding

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

para mim, o amor por uma pessoa é o respeito pelos mesmos sentimentos individuais - o respeito à privacidade e a aceitação dos defeitos.

A man's got to know his limitations.

It's not about you. It's about them.

What you think about me says more about you than it does about me.

Imagine being given a life and not understanding until its ugly end that the point was to live it.

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

Many intellectuals in the social sciences and humanities do not concede that Earth scientists have anything to say that could impinge on their understanding of the world, because the "world" consists only of humans engaging with humans, with nature no more than a passive backdrop to draw on as we please.

The reasons why so many people in the West downplay or deny the threat posed by the CCP is a theme of this book. One reason is of course financial interest. As Upton Sinclair put it, 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.

Finally you get to the age when a book's power to make you think becomes the first thing you notice about it.

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. —EGON FRIEDELL,

They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no-one understands you. —CHARLES CHAPLIN TO ALBERT EINSTEIN AT THE 1931 PREMIERE OF CITY LIGHTS

Tacitus, "qui abrégeoit tout parce qu'il voyoit tout." ("He abridged everything because he saw everything." Perfect.)

in those days I construed absence of explicit opposition as a whole-hearted endorsement.

the damaging notion that obscure is the way philosophy should sound.

His advocacy and understanding of Victor Hugo led to a close friendship,

He knew where to drop the needle – an especially important qualification in the matter of Wagner, with whom it is an invariable rule that the most immediately accessible bits are never at the edge of the disc.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together

No true God demands mindless belief and punishes the honesty of those who admit their doubt. The Mother knows you must doubt, to understand, to grow in wisdom.