Quotes About Understanding

Chaos was my philosophy. Oh, yeah. Have no rules. If people start to build fences around you, break out and do something else. You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

They had not done the wild things that had no basis in their understanding of the workings of the body. They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza. Others had done these things and more, but they had not.

The question "why" is too deep for science. Science instead believes it can only learn "how" something occurs.

Jacob Henle, the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory, echoed Francis Bacon when he said, "Nature answers only when she is questioned.

Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image.

They had not done the wild things that had no basis in their understanding of the workings of the body. They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza.

Accordingly, no book can actually embody the knowledge of anything of philosophical importance; only a mind can do that, since only a mind can have this capacity to interpret and reinterpret its own understandings.

The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body language. They perceive our intentions even though we may not be consciously aware of them.

One night in bed Jennings complained that Brand's monologues were growing harsh and boring. She asked him to please "gentle up.

LISTEN twice as much as you speak.

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

The authors of literary works may not have intended all the subtleties, complexities, undertones, and overtones that are attributed to them by critics and by students writing doctoral theses. That's what God says about geologists, I told him...

We are each on our own journey; and while that journey always interacts with those of others, it remains uniquely ours. To understand it we need the eyes of a child.

There are some great mysteries here, which each of us is better placed to understand than any sceptical scientist or religious zealot, simply because our Universe is not the same as theirs.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.