Quotes About Understanding

Reality doesn't happen until you analyze the dots.

If we isolate the stray thought, the passing thought, he said, the thought whose origin is unfathomable, then we begin to understand that we are routinely deranged, everyday crazy.

You knew her for years and I knew her for minutes. It comes to the same thing. These matters have to be assessed in the light of eternity.

Isolation is not a drawback to those who understand that isolation is the point.

What do children know? They know who they are, she said, in ways we can't know and they can't tell us.

What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.

We yell and scold as a way of paying homage to each other's views. This is the burden of friendship between extremely high-strung individuals.

He has abandoned his life to understanding that moment in Dallas, the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century.

The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.

I know it's thankless to be sensible in the face of someone's primitive distrust.

Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.

Reality doesn't happen until you analyze the dots

Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let's call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let's devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.

There is a thing about the trust of a dog that makes up for a lot of heartache we take in this life.

the basement. "What do you want to do?" she said. "Whatever you want to do." "I want to do whatever's best for you." "What's best for me is to please you," I said. "I want to make you happy, Jack." "I'm happy when I'm pleasing you." "I just want to do what you want to do.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make be proud to be an American.

I'm still sad, but you've given my sadness a richness and depth it has never known before.

Me doy cuenta ahora de que el primer día apenas llegué a mirar. Creía estar mirando, pero solo estaba percibiendo un mero barrunto de lo que hay en estos cuadros. Ahora es cuando estoy empezando a mirar.

There is a piece of Chinese wisdom," she said. "To know and not to act is not to know.

They're not calling it the feathery plume anymore," he said, not meeting my eyes, as if to spare himself the pain of my embarrassment. "I already knew that." "They're calling it the black billowing cloud." "Good." "Why is that good?" "It means they're looking the thing more or less squarely in the eye. They're on top of the situation.

This is all happening in the future. This future, this instant. If you can't absorb this idea, best go home now." I

How deep is time? How far down into the life of matter do we have to go before we understand what time is?

He reached across the table and touched her arm as he always did when he thought he might have said something wrong or cut her off. Don't listen to what I say. Trust my hands, my touch.

What is a nucleotide ? You don't know, do you? Yet these are the building blocks of life. What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.