To understand everything is to forgive everything
BuddhaIf you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert EinsteinStrange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable perhaps when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
AristotleThe question “what shall we do about it” is only asked by those who do not understand the problem.
Alan WattsMy goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is, and why it exists at all.
Stephen HawkingOne half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane AustenIt is my belief you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
Winston ChurchillWe should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl JungMetaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Richard DawkinsThe superior man understands what is right, the inferior man understands what will sell.
ConfuciusPerplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil GibranFolks never understand the folks they hate.
James Russell LowellThe more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark TwainLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert EinsteinThose that know do. Those that understand teach.
AristotleThe wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo CoelhoTruth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement StoneWe are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen HawkingYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil GibranLook at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
ConfuciusFor my part, it was Greek to me.
William ShakespeareIt isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Oprah WinfreyWe all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry ,and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value, no matter what their color.
Maya AngelouWe only labor to stuff the memory and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de MontaigneYou have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo CoelhoThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da VinciYou do ill if you praise but worse if you censure what you do not understand.
Leonardo da VinciUnderstand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah WinfreyThe proper man understands equity, the small man profits.
ConfuciusBut I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Alan WattsPrayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma GandhiLife itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.
Rabindranath TagoreThere are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory.
Paulo CoelhoIt is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Kahlil GibranWhen music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
ConfuciusWhat I hear I forget. What I see I remember. What I do I understand.
ConfuciusIs there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Pablo PicassoTo understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil GibranIt ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark TwainWe have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl SaganIf you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah WinfreyI spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true if once understood.
Max MullerShe was a woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper.
Jane AustenAnd what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that One - most new jobs are created by small businesses; Two - most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.
George W. BushAn anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
OvidI understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.
George W. BushWe have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo CoelhoAgain a different meaning has to be understood.
BuddhaMy readers - and I get 400 emails for a day - my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
Paulo CoelhoCome away O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler YeatsI loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move but I have no regrets about doing it.
Steve Martin