#understanding

"It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten."

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

"I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably."

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

"Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand"

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

"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."

"The practice of understanding, forgiveness, and love is the best practice for a peaceful world."

"Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now."

"Anguish is the universal language"

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me."

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

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."

"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."

"Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own."

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."

"Forever friends are a treasure chest of understanding and compassion. Cherish them."

"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."

"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."