Quotes About Understanding

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

Humility, we say, is very important because we feel humility means the ability to listen, the ability to respect another's opinion and to find that everybody around you in some subject knows more.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.

When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It's very satisfying.

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

Every subject you think you know, I'll dissect it and show you the truth.

Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.

I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.

I always like learning the small details about a subject.

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.

Math - it's not my best subject.

I have a credibility on the subject that most people don't.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

There's a lot of new subject matter to learn. You start slowly peeling the onion and start figuring out how the policy and the politics intersect.

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.