Quotes About Understanding

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

For me, when we're all human beings, it's just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That's one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than in those close around us. We see the shape of those far-off constellations, but we cannot group or set in order that to which our own sun belongs.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

We cannot do justice to the deeds of former times if we do not in some degree remove ourselves from the circumstances in which we stand and substitute those by which the real actors were surrounded.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

We cannot really communicate with our fans.

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and we think we know it, yet we cannot say what we mean by it.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

You shouldn't say, 'Well, we cannot go there,' before we even had the conversation.