Quotes About Understanding

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Only the great Souls can and know how to love.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

Experience is a great teacher.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.