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

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

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Solutions are not the answer.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

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

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

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

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

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.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

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

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

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.

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

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

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

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.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

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.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

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

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.