#understanding

"When people say they don’t understand my generation, I like to point out that it’s not “my” generation. I’m only co-owner with a 50% stake."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"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."

"Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding"

"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."

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

"Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge."

"No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time."

"By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions."

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

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

"There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first."

"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."

"Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding..."

"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."

"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."

"القراءة المبالغ فيها لا تجعل منا أذكياء. بعض الناس يبتلعون الكتب, وهم يفعلون ذلك بدون فاصل للتفكير الضروري. وهو ضروري لكي يهضم المقروء ويبنى ويتبنى ويُفهم"

"Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?"

"Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most."

"I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]"