Quotes About Understanding

When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse, and cleans them up a little better. All Tom knew was that when he tried to explain things to Sharon, his own thinking clarified.

He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about it.

No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another's

The perfect servant is the one who attends to all the master's whims - anyone can do that - but the one who anticipates the whims.

Bir duygu, hakk?nda aç?k bir fikir olu?turdu?umuz anda ihtiras olmaktan ç?kar." - Spinoza

Aptal, bilge oldu?unu zanneder ama bilge, aptal oldu?unu bilir." - Shakespeare

We gaan er altijd van uit dat lezen gemakkelijk is omdat we de techniek die we zo lang geleden hebben geleerd, vergeten zijn en het nu voortdurend zonder nadenken doen. Als een boek dus moeilijk lijkt, moet dat eerder de schuld van het boek zijn dan van de lezer.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

That was the last and greatest demand that Heisenberg made on his friendship with you. To be understood when he couldn't understand himself. And that was the last and greatest act of friendship for Heisenberg that you performed in return. To leave him misunderstood." Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

Not your view, I know—you'd be happy to describe what you were up to purely in differential equations if you could—" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".

The natural tendency of man is to remain unconscious.

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

A great deal of intellectual intelligence depends on emotional intelligence.

Adolescent youths cry out for us to help them contextualize their life experiences.

Boys often need us to give them more time than girls need, and they often need us to connect their feelings to objects in the outside world.

For a man, graceful love is immensely difficult, and nearly impossible, if his relationship with his mother is not fully understood.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

The notion that one must know history in order to understand the present has a certain justification when applied to the history of events, but not for the structural history of society. Rather, the opposite is the case: to examine the *constitution* of a particular social and economic structure, one has to be already familiar with the *completed* structure. Only then will one know what to look for in history.

The greatest gift you can offer anyone or anything, is your undivided attention.

Look with your heart, not with your eyes. The

Campbell could not disagree with Europeans' condescending view of American science as a backwater rich in money and manpower but poor in theoretical understanding.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

Before they can know what they need, they need to know who they are. This is one of Belichick's core philosophies, and it is why he was sitting in this Gillette Stadium room with a binder, notebook, pens, and pages of football statistics.

Belichick's 'genius'- a term he does not like applied to himself- is more than an ability to easily sift through distractions and nonsense and identify the central point.