The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

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

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

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.‘

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

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

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

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

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

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

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

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

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

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

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.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

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

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.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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

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 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.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

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.

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

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.

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

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

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.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

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

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

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

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

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.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.