Quotes About Understanding

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.

I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians.

Being biracial and being around my White family, I have to educate them.

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.

If people are educated, they will know what they need.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

I just want to be educated.

Honestly, I'm not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn't say I'm super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn't speak on things that I don't understand too much.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

Gay men must be more effective caregivers to the women in their lives.

Miss Universe is someone who communicates her thoughts effectively and is able to connect to people.

I try to make my wife happy, but I know my efforts aren't enough.

I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.

There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

I'm understanding theatre a bit more. I've learned that you go over and over stuff. There's a big element of back-story: where have the characters been before, where have they come from?

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.