Quotes About Understanding

But there's something about music, when you feel it deeply, when you understand it so well, the way Isabelle understands it, there is something about it that makes scary things seem to disappear. If only for a little while -Giselle

the "old world" view separates data from emotional process and focuses leaders on the "talking heads" of others, while the "new world" view focuses leaders on the nature of their own presence.

Daniel Kahneman astutely observed, "No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind

Since Feeling is first who ever pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you...

The geometry! I think I can see it! Each quarter section is homeomorphic to a triangle!

The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.

On the Day of Judgement, God will interrogate people according to the wisdom he has granted them.

the end of your praying is not to inform God, as though he knew not your wants already; but rather to inform yourselves, to

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits.

You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Les autres mettent des semaines et des mois pour arriver à aimer, et à aimer peu, et il leur faut des entretiens et des goûts communs et des cristallisations. Moi, ce fut le temps d'un battement de paupières.

Elle ne se doutait pas qu'il était en train d'adorer sa gaucherie et qu'il gardait le silence pour la faire durer.

La vrai amour ce n'est pas de vivre avec une femme parce qu'on l'aime, mais de l'aimer parce qu'on vit avec elle.

Les loups mêmes comprennent qui ne se mangent pas entre eux.

In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

I love Humanity but I hate humans

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.