Quotes About Understanding

Truth and clarity are complementary.

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature...

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Der Punkt ist, dass Feldexkursionen häufig eher ein Versuch des Forschers sind, eigene, sehr persönliche Probleme zu lösen, als dass sie dem Bemühen entspringen andere Kulturen zu verstehen.

Self-similarity on all scales is a key factor in understanding and describing nature's phenomena.

Art is about those things which we do not always immediately recognize or understand. The artist helps us to see things more clearly, revealing previously hidden patterns to us. Art is fractal. Art reflects and expresses the fractal nature of our conscious perceptions of the world, as interpreted by our fractal brains.

I really hope no white person ever has causeto write about mebecause they never understandBlack love is Black wealth and they'llprobably talk about my hard childhoodand never understand thatall the while I was quite happy.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

Best thing about friends: they know you inside and out. Worst thing about friends: They know you inside and out. My turtle shell is useless.

You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you. They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine if everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire. Love them no matter what.

Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

Menschen können nicht kommunizieren, nicht einmal ihre Gehirne können kommunizieren, nicht einmal das Bewußtsein kann kommunizieren. Nur die Kommunikation kann kommunizieren.

Only communication can communicate

Increasingly, people seem to interpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling – the incomprehensible should cause suspicion, not admiration. Possibly this results from the mistaken belief that using a mysterious device confers [extra] power on the user.

What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...