Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

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

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

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

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

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

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

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

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

What you guys want, I’m for.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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

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

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

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

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

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

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

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.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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

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.

What one fool can understand, another can.

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

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

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.