Quotes About Understanding

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

You have to be colder. Then he will come to you. The more you pull, she said, the more he'll run. A boy, a man, he is like an untrained dog who thinks that because you don't allow him to sniff the pole over there, that pole is the most precious spot in the world. Let him go, she said. And he will come running back.

There is a system of belief adequate to the complexity of experience

Hey, do you want to end this right now?" Her eyes flared. "I wouldn't have asked you out if I'd wanted to end it. Sit back, eat and enjoy. Pretend I'm dead.

E=mc2 is even better than the best poetry: "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

And are even quite polite, at first, as they discuss whose name exactly it was their son had just said.

If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually 'blocking' communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.

I feel as though I am swimming in an ocean of knowledge with but a teaspoon to consume it.

And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through. - Changes

Don't you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

The moment you know you know you know.

Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences together, alienates us as surely as the ramblings of a madman on a bus.

I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine... gentle yet courageous, possessed, has a cultivated as well as a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own to approve or amend my plans.' Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1819

And so he set about restoring them, using the tricks he had learned over the years. He went to them, speaking to each of them in tones so low that none of the others could hear, getting their names, gently touching them, asking about their pains, their fears, gently eliciting their stories, reminding them of why they had run in the first place.

knowing nothing can get you humiliated and knowing a little bit can get you killed, but knowing all of it will bring you power.

science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

The species greatest harvest ? words.

Our own filters and biases cloud our abilities to understand and to communicate effectively. It

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

It is possible to have a complex human relationship without words

He did have Melissa at that point, and she was very nice. But he's a very complex individual