Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Being is the great explainer.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

I love a natural look in pictures.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

God always takes the simplest way.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

You can stroke people with words.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

What one fool can understand, another can.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

I’m just a simple country girl.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.