Quotes About Understanding

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. Breakthrough

Jiddu Krishnamurti: "To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

How many of us can honestly say that we have plumbed the depths of our minds and hearts? How many of us regularly listen to ourselves with empathy and understanding—in the supportive way that a trusted friend can?

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Although building science has been taught in schools of architecture for quite some time, the knowledge and understanding it encompasses are still not part of students' and architects' cognitive framework and design intuition.

Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

Before you know it, if you're not careful, you can get to feeling sorry for everybody and there's nobody left to hate.

És nem lehetne ez a te igazságod is? Szeretném, ha a tied lenne. Szeretném, hogy egészen megismerj. – (…) A te igazad nem lehet az enyém.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

If we don't understand how seriously ill we are, we don't pursue the remedy with the required diligence. If we are slightly ill, we take an aspirin. If we are dying, we passionately pursue a cure. The cure is not forced on us; it is offered to us.4

Some things God has revealed; others remain mysteries.

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

Choice word and measured phrase, above the reachOf ordinary men.

Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.