Quotes About Understanding

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Toleration is the best religion.

A library implies an act of faith.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

It doesn't matter what the question is, Alex, the answer is always love

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

Why don't they let us explain who we are?' Derin protested 'It's not fair judging us like that without giving us a chance to speak' Marna laughed mirthlessly. 'Do you think that would help?' she responded. 'The face of fear has neither eyes nor ears. It is blind and deaf to all but its own terrors.

Whenever people are particularly muddled in their thinking they invent big words to cover their confusion.

Arthur Brisbane defined good writing, are "easier to read than to skip.

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

Pitoyable, celui qui ne songe qu'à sa propre vie, à sa propre mort, il n'a rien compris... et qu'il s'en aille alors, c'est le mieux qu'il puisse faire, qu'il s'en aille avec notre pitié...

all modern science grew from [juju] and still is nothing more than juju with diagrams and longer words.

I now know that to be loved as child means to be watched. In high school, I loved when the teacher turned the lights off. A moment to feel loved and unseen at once. I understand now. We can't be loved when the lights are off.

I know the heart doesn't really shatter, but I also can no longer feel it.

At the end of the day, someone took the monitor and speakers away. But the music was still there. This was my first understanding of grief.

Don't judge me by first impression, You will surprise onward.

The proper conceptual view is attained only through introspection.

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

I'm not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.

It's a misconception that Beauty is in the Eyes of beholder. In my view, Beauty must be in the Heart of beholder for her true appreciation.