The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

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.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

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.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

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

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

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.

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

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

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

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.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

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

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.

Science is nothing but perception.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

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.

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

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

What one fool can understand, another can.

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

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

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

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

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

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

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

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

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

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

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

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

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

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

The less you know, the more you believe.