Quotes About Understanding

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

As grown women, we have kids and we should be able to sit down and discuss issues without getting violent and having to cross someone's territory.

My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.

I feel such a connection to 'Violet.'

My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

You need virtual reality to understand high level science or high level math. It's very helpful to explain third and fourth dimensional things that people are constantly addressing in quantum physics. But, as soon as you're creating an avatar, and you can live and you can start to feel sensations on VR, that has gone too far.

What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.

I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I didn't really have the personal agency to express it.

We really wanted to circumvent that online learning curve, where it's virtually impossible to use words to explain music.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Impatience is a virtue.

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.