From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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

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.

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

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

A person hears only what they understand.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

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.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.