Quotes About Understanding

Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?

Other people visualize by means of intuition or a vague sense of simply knowing something. It's

Perhaps it's just me, but I don't think Jesus' words were meant to be tied to a brick and chunked through your neighbor's window at midnight. Anytime you drop a picture of Christ in the mailbox while muttering a self-righteous "This'll teach 'em," something has gone terribly wrong.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

It also comes as a surprise that the term was invented not to talk about altruism or acts of kindness, but to explain how we can enjoy a sonata or a sunset. Empathy, for Vischer, was creative seeing, reshaping the world so as to find ourselves reflected in it. In

The only defence against raw, naked feeling was reason. Understanding made sadness easier to bear.

You understand, he says, people don't always take what you give to them. Not every chance is an opportunity. Sometimes a chance is just a waste of time.

Why did people believe it was only the flesh that binds?

My father's tongue, forever foreign to me.

he is incapable of examining his own pain like a spore on a slide and finding it interesting, interesting. If your own pain is interesting to yo, how much more detached will you be from somebody else's pain...

A person who asks questions can get a reputation such as a person who wishes to find things out.

I thought I had trained you well, Beta,' she said, 'but I see I must reinforce the most basic conditioning. Know yourself. Understand yourself. In this life, most answers lie within, or in plain view right in front of us. They can be seen with ease if you but take the time to look.

An eye can look out and it can look in. You should know that, you who look deeper than most.

Anything that is easy enough to understand is not powerful enough to be worshipped.

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too? Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

Being a writer of 'literary fiction' means going on and on about something long after the reader has gotten the idea. ...Dan Ahearn

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again.

religion that cannot survive looking at itself through the eyes of others does not deserve to survive.

To teach a student riddle a student with his own life To teach a student ask a student the question he asked you in words more learned than his words until he relents and he says a student There is no answer I don't know

I write because I read. I imagine many of us are this way, bewildered in the tangle of these activities: writing to understand how better to read, reading to understand how better to write."-Dan Beachy-Quick

For us to close our mind to scientific reasoning without using our best critical thinking is to refuse to use our God-given capacity for understanding.

If the holy conversation, a generous discourse, is to occur, the labeling must cease. We are not dealing with labels, we are talking to people.

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.