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

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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.

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’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.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

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

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

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

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.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

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

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.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

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.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

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

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

What one fool can understand, another can.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

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

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

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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

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.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

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

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

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

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

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