One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

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.

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

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

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.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

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

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

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.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

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

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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.

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.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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.

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

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

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

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

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

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

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

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.