Quotes About Understanding

You don't have to make a commitment or anything," Emma said. "That you're my best friend is enough of a miracle.

I said, I'm talking to you!" "No, you aren't," she said, continuing to walk through the mud. "If you were talking to me, you'd use my real name." Picking up his pace, the drunk laughed. "How'm I supposed to know who you are?" "Precisely!

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

the problem, and our understanding of it, changes as we tackle it.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. —1 Corinthians 13:12

Effective decision makers are distinguished not so much by the superior extent of their knowledge as by their being aware of its limitations.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

I still don't know how to work out a poem. A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving into a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out, it is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept the mystery.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live.

at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason

The more I have known the more have I lov'd.

Better to lose your ego to the one you love, than to lose your love because of your ego

Fino a che una cosa non ci ammala, non la capiamo.

To be thrown among people who care not for you, with whom you have no sympathies[-] [it] forces the Mind upon its own resources, and leaves it free to make its speculations [on] the differences of human character and to class them with the calmness of a Botanist...

Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not grasping what is going on. Montaigne encouraged us to blame the author. An incomprehensible prose-style is likely to have resulted more from laziness than cleverness; what reads easily is rarely so written...

What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That's one of your problems. You never tell me your problems.

Open your heart, Ignatius, and you will open your valve.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly.

Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. The poor man has always a precise view of his problem and its remedy: he hasn't enough and needs more.

And in unraveling the complex we should always be careful not to overlook the obvious. John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society.