Quotes About Understanding

The one who asks questions does not lose his way.

Good," said Dr. Rust. "Take Elizabeth up to stack 9 and show her the ropes." "But the ropes are on stack 2." "I meant metaphorically.

You're sweet, Leo," said Jaya. "But how do you know the you in the world where I'm not me isn't saying the exact same thing to the not-me me right now?" "I don't. But I don't care what he's saying because he's not me. He's just some other guy saying something to some other girl who isn't you. Or maybe he's the girl and you're a guy in which case he's some other girl saying something to some other guy who isn't you," I said. "It has nothing to do with us.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of history as a whole, is, as it seems to me, much in the case of one, who, after having looked at the dissevered limbs of an animal once alive and beautiful, fancies he has been as good as an eyewitness of the creature itself in all its action and grace.

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

From this perspective, we can say that genuine faith is simply confidence and trust in ourselves, in our own intelligence and understanding, which then extends to the path we're traveling.

Deeper understanding of the matter is bound to recognize that the Temple, as well as the synagogue, entered into Christian liturgy.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

I hope that what you are after is an exchange … not a reaction.

Live to live and you will learn to live

I hope we do feel and reason enough alike that I can play tricks on you.

If I have learned anything, it is that intelligence and knowledge are worth little by themselves. Failing the enlightenment that goes beyond words and the world, they serve mainly to provide us with wonderful reasons for doing what we intend to do regardless.

Monstrosities could be slain; but first they must be understood

I've yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated.

But he knew he'd started reading books on Sri Lanka, because he needed to explain things, to himself and others -- because if that world, his world over there had ever made sense, it seemed far more confused when questioned from outside.