If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

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.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I love trying new things.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

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

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

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

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

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.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

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 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!

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

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

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

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

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

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

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.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

A person hears only what they understand.

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

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

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

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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

Women. They are a complete mystery.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

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

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

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

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.