It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

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.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

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

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

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.

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.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

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

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

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.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

I don’t speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

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

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

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

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

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

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

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

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 think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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.

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

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

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

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.

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

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Respect the burden.

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.

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

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.