Quotes About Understanding

She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just .

To feel hope you don't need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change.

Andrew Martin

We don't go into a state of shock when something big and bad happens," she says. "It has to be something big and bad that we do not yet understand.

About how human brains take complex information about the world and simplify it, so that when a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called 'tree'. To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.

Hayat? anlaman gerekmiyor. Ya?aman yeterli.

I know my own face too well to actually see it. Familiarity could make you a stranger to yourself.

I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side what you really had to do was relieve their pain.

We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.

At the sub-atomic level, everything is complex. But you do not live at the sub-atomic level. You have the right to simplify. If you don't, you will go insane.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

Generally, you don't want to begin conversations with "Why" questions because, as mentioned before, they have a tendency to put people on the defense. It

The point of an exemplar is not that he or she is to be emulated, but that this person, in virtue of being farther along a path you aspire to go down, somehow understands you better than you understand yourself—at least at the beginning.

The listener will be able to hear your emotions in your voice, so

It was perfect. I mean . . . not that anything really happened." "Oh, George, it's not how much you do, it's what you feel while you're doing it. You know that. But do you know the real truth?" "No, What?" "The real truth is that whoever you love will be just like me, and not just in the fog. Understand?" "No." "You will

When the thing standing between you and your heart's desire is another person with their own wants and needs, the answer is never as simple as just laying down the law. We all understand this when someone else tries to tell us what we can and can't do, but conveniently forget it when it's our turn to give orders. This blind spot is common to people on all parts of the political spectrum, which is one reason why I don't like arguing politics much.

Biblical literalism is for the simple.

And yet she did understand: not only the lengths to which a mother might go to protect her child; but the impulsive acts to which a heart, disturbed by years of longing, might be prone.

Irony alert: the most important news story in the world is the inability of the ordinary news consumer to understand the news. This is no dig against readers. The world has just grown so complex that the majority of serious issues are beyond the understanding of non-specialists.

As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while, and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.

And then they were left looking at each other like a husband and wife with very few secrets left between them.

not only is the structure of the modern economy inaccessible to ordinary consumers, it can be inaccessible to the people setting public policy. Often, it's beyond the CEOs in relevant industries (AIG sank in part because executives did not understand its own financial products).

The same heart beats in every human breast.