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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

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.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

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

What one fool can understand, another can.

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.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

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.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

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.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

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

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

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

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

A person hears only what they understand.

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

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

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

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

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

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

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

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.