Quotes About Understanding

In discarding a literal religious explanation, it becomes easy to discredit the hard-won wisdom often bundled up with it.

A more substantive potential use of words to enhance our lives is the lost art of conversation.

La fe más prometedora para el futuro podría basarse en la comprensión de que el universo entero es un sistema relacionado por leyes comunes y que no tiene sentido imponer nuestros sueños y deseos sobre la naturaleza sin tenerla en cuenta.

You can drive a car all your life without knowing how the engine works, because the goal of driving is to get from one place to the next, regardless how it's done. But to live without understanding how we think, why we feel the way we feel, what directs our actions is to miss what is most important in life, which is the experience itself.

In many ways, Max Planck's obsession with understanding the Absolute underlies most human attempts to transcend the limitations of a body doomed to die after a short span of years.

it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.

Hanefitai ir krikš?ionys, žydai ir magai tuš?iai jo ieškojo.Žem?je t?ra dvejopi žmon?s. Protingi, kurie neturi tik?jimo, ir tikintieji, kurie neturi proto

nothing angers a woman more than the discovery that in the relationship between man and man there are things that women can never understand.

Tuhat kirjaa luettuaan ihminen alkaa aavistaa masentavan totuuden. Kymmenentuhatta kirjaa tekee hänet surulliseksi

My spirit welled up in its joy because I asked myself "why?" The dread key to all true knowledge is "why?

Puheesi on kuin kärpäsen surinaa korvissani.

Tus palabras son como un zumbido de moscas en mis oídos

Always be a bridge, not a wall or a weapon.

How and why sub-quark wave events are captured and read, how they let us view the past, and why they show us only possible pasts, is difficult to explain. So instead of a technical lecture, I'm going to engage in what popular science journalists call "oversimplification". In academia, we call this "lying".

We need to talk to the person, not about them.

When people experience strong emotion, they can't hear logic.

That's the problem with our perspective; we always assume we're right based on the information we have.

Crazy people will always be present in our lives.

It takes a lot of work to start a conversation—overcoming hesitancy, approaching someone, checking our mind-set, and saying the right things. It also takes a lot of energy to keep a conversation going well. That's where we usually put our focus. So it's surprising to most people that ending a conversation can often be the toughest part.

Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with us.

On the other hand, Jesus rebuked those who could not receive because of their lack of faith in Him.

We must know the power of truth and experience the truth about power.

We don't want people to understand forgiveness or prayer or mission or justice only intellectually. We want people who can forgive, who can hear and respond to God, who actually know Him. We want people who have hearts that break for our world and the people in it and do something about it. We want the kind of people in our communities who resemble the people we see in Scripture.

life is richer when it is shared even with those who annoy us from time to time.