To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

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.

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

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

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.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Science is nothing but perception.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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.

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.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

I’m addicted to placebos.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

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.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

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

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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.

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

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

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.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

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.

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.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

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

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.