There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

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

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

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

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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

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.‘

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

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.

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

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

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.‘

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

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.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

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