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.

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.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

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 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.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

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.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

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

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.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

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

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.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

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.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

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

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

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

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

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!

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

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

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

A person hears only what they understand.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

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

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

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

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

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

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

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

It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

The less you know, the more you believe.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

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

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.