Quotes About Understanding

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

A stupid person laughs three times at a joke; once when everyone else is laughing, a second time when he actually gets the joke, and a third time when he realizes he was laughing without getting the joke at first.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Science is organized knowledge.

Friends are important, because they are there when no one else is...

If you have a little problem, I could try to lend a hand. If you're feeling sad, just tell me and I'll try to understand. - Piglet

Understand what people are really going through, then give the best solution you can. Maybe you could be the Angel that saved a life that would have been gone forever.

When you make a mistake, those who truly know you will understand what you meant to make and will help fix it, but those who don't know you well enough, will see it as a total failure and will help to complicate it.

A real Mom sees beyond your confusions and understands the kind of support you need to sail through and then gives it all to you.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we dont understand.