#understanding

"Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding"

"I write to understand as much as to be understood."

"Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories."

"Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one."

"True love is born from understanding."

"In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30."

"Before you hate something you should try to understand it."

"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

"Even so, I’m somebody.I’m the Discoverer of Nature.I’m the Argonaut of true sensations.I bring a new Universe to the UniverseBecause I bring the Universe to itself."

"Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life."

"Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."

"There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this."

"The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective."

"I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill."

"She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable."

"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

"He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it."

"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."

"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."