Understanding Quotes - Page 6

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.

For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on writing purely out of habit, or a craving for admiration, or because one knows not how to do anything other, or out of sheer wonderment, despair or outrage, any more than one could say whether writing renders one more perceptive or more insane. Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life?

Believe this, “the higher you go, the further you see” and also “the further you see the clearer you hear; “the clearer you hear, the wiser you become”!

No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you.

You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions.

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding...If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is a posture of grace.

knowledge is our enviroment..wisdome, is how we perceive our environment".

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

Not to understand something is better than misunderstanding it.

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Always listen to your soul and feel the purity of that moment - no matter how sad or joyful - because it will speak to you further... a healing an understanding, a perspective or more will come out of it. Only because you listened.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes.

Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.

Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.

They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.

I didn’t fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.

at last he understood that he has always been forgiven and worthy of love,and that no one could take that from him, that not even he could take that from himself.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.

It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.

In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that neither strength of body, nor noble blood, nor success in war even greater than Alexander's own... that none of these things, I say, can make a man happy, unless he can win one more victory in addition to those the world thinks so great---the victory over himself.

Our perception is our window to the world, and we need to wipe the dust off of our window often so we can continue to see through it clearly.

To pursue kingdom understanding of what makes its lifestyle work on earth ask specific kingdom questions

The little I have, I share with you; the little you have, you also share with me. Together we all have a full share of everything. Share with me your Love as I share with you my Peace; together we have full share of Unity!

There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding

You can not rise above your understanding, yet our understanding largely stems from the quality and quantity of knowledge we have been privileged to acquire.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

[Being rejected] hurt, 'cause what turned me on in sex was believing that they knew me, that I'd found somebody to understand.

It takes understanding to be outstanding

Before you assume, learn. Before you judge, understand. Before you hurt, feel. Before you say, think.

You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles interact with each other and separate? Or is it to be an understanding at a deeper level in which there are things that are not directly observable (as the underlying quantized fields are) but in terms of which we shall have a more fundamental understanding?

Why should I contemplate the failure or the negativity when everything that it happens, it happens for a reason, that is above our human understanding and we may understand it sooner or later?Why I should not take each step, each second, from the gift - life that I have received it, with trust and confidence in God, the Creator, that allows everything to happen, for His master plan?Is it the expressing of the rage, of the sadness, a human nature sin, that is covered under the mask of caring of the human that knows his own smallness?

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none... Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

What," "how," "when," etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask "why" is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect.

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

Yesterday, I got lost.You did too.So what?People get lost all the time.It's just a matter of finding yourself, and treasuring that.

Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the sheep; I love the ceremony.

Our differences are beautiful, yet sometimes connection requires us to focus on our similarities, like the fact that we are all trying, all struggling, all wanting to be seen and to be loved. Perhaps if we start there, with this basic understanding of what it means to be alive, we will grow in our connection to one another and learn to love the beautiful differences that embody our improbable human reality.

Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

All roads out of hell lead home.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.