The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

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.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

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

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

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.

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

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

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!

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

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

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

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

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

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.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

A person hears only what they understand.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

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.