Quotes About Understanding

What is the difference between describing 'how' and explaining 'why'? To describe 'how' means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another. To explain 'why' means to find causal connections that account for the occurrence of this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others.

Mais je ne puis rien te répondre: car les mots Ont ceci de cruel qu'ils se refusent À ceux qui les respectent et les aiment Pour ce qu'ils pourraient être, non ce qu'ils sont.

The more you know, the less you need.

Uncurious people do not lead examined lives; they cannot see causes that lie deeper than the surface.

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

She knew that he knew she knew he knew better.

There are reasonable limitations. I believe I can't fly. I believe I can't touch the sky.

Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

Eu n-am tr?it. Abia acum am început s? pricep via?a. Auzi? S? mor!... ?i s? r?mân? atîtea c?r?i necitite de mine!... S? se fi întîmplat ?i s? se întîmple atîtea pe lume, atîtea, de care n-am mai avut timp s? aflu, s? aud.

No knowledge can summarize humans in one premise."

One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature."

Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

One day, someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else.

Tevin, rarely does it matter what's actual or factual when it comes to women and how they think. All that matters is what they perceive.

Socialism reached into her mind, to be rejected. She had never understood it clearly, but it seemed to her a state of mind where dissatisfied men and women wanted to share what harder working or more gifted people possessed.

Halt!..." Wade leaped at the white Belllounds. "If you run I'll break a leg for you--an' then I'll beat your miserable brains out!... Have you no sense? Can't you recognize what's comin'?... I'm goin' to kill you, Buster Jack!" "My God!" whispered the other, understanding fully at last.

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

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.

One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.

Any individual entity that presumes to understand the rules that guide this space is under an illusion.

Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning of the relationship between democracy and centralism, and the way in which democratic centralism should be put into practice. Only in this way can we really extend democracy within the Party and at the same time avoid ultra-democracy and the laissez-faire that destroys discipline.

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.