Quotes About Understanding

There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.

Let go the ones who just likes you, because they will leave you for the one they love, but don't let go the ones who love you, because they will never leave you for anyone they like

You can't understand anything unless you unless you understand everything.

Love isn't about having someone who's perfect. It's about having someone who's perfect for you.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot

To treat things with respect and intrigue, we don't need to understand their motivations and inner lives—whatever knowing the inner life of a tangelo or a floor tile would mean.4 We just need to pay enough attention to discover what they do and how they work—to discover what they obviously and truly are—and then to make use of them in gratifyingly novel ways. And

I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will prevent us from making similar blunders in the future... And yet it is important to know what happened before, and to try and make sense of it. For if we don't, we cannot understand our own times.

the first place you go blind is in the eyes

The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.

One of the reasons dad was so pleased was because it did something to her.

I looked across to his picture on the wall, the one that showed him with a pained look on this face, with a bleeding heart painted on his chest. I knew exactly how he felt.

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

She said being inside a language was like being in a person's house - after a while you came to see why the teapot was where it was.

The main thing wrong with religion is that people have gotten it wrong. The goal is to understand religion as it should be understood, as traditions, myths, symbols, and practices intended to lead one to a deeper, more profound experience of human life. The desire for this knowledge is hard wired in us. That won't disappear. Unless of course we wipe each other out in the next holy war, in which case we've successfully screwed ourselves.

And the conviction stands that there must be knowledge to be had, if only we could get it. Perhaps that is what is wrong: an assumption about the possibility of knowledge and the kind of knowledge that it must be.

Purpose of Life: Understand Who You Are Believe In Yourself.

One should not make more assumptions than are absolutely necessary.

For many millennia men faced their enemies; they sat or walked side by side as they hunted game with their friends." So unless you want your words to send him into battle, use evolution to your advantage and have a sex talk with him while taking a walk or drive, or just sitting comfortably next to each other on the couch. Prepare

you cannot plunge in blindly…lest you miss the forest for the trees and there be no end to your labors.