Quotes About Understanding

He said that in an attempt to understand the law—or, for that matter, just about anything—the key was to focus on what he termed the "one percent." Don't get lost in the crabgrass of details, he urged us. Instead, think about the essence of what you're exploring—the one percent that gives life to the other ninety-nine.

we do better when we move beyond solving a puzzle to serving a person.

They think they know a lot about me, because I know a lot about them.

It's about leading with my ears instead of my mouth," Ferlazzo says. "It means trying to elicit from people what their goals are for themselves and having the flexibility to frame what we do in that context.

power leads individuals to anchor too heavily on their own vantage point, insufficiently adjusting to others' perspective.

In one typical study, researchers found that physicians interrupt the majority of patients in the first eighteen seconds the patient speaks during an appointment, which often prevents the patient from describing what brought her to the office in the first place.

Empathy is related to Symphony—because empathic people understand the importance of context. They see the whole person much as symphonic thinkers see the whole picture.

Necessity can obliterate our hatreds.

You want to know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ things. You want to know everything. But you can understand so little.

The true knowledge is not in the things, which are few, but in finding the connection between the things.

No matter how crazy it seems, the world always operates by the rules. Those rules can be understood, even if it doesn't seem like it at first.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

Mais, c'est évident !".

There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

I write to discover what I think

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowing.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. —Robert Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, p. xii

It is difficult to appreciate the complexity of the brain because the numbers are so huge. The average brain consists of 100 billion neurons.