Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.
Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.
When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.
Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.
Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, i...
If you understand cause and effect, it brings about a set of insights that leads you to a very different place. The knowledge will persuade you that the market isn't organized by customer category or by product category. If you understand the job tha...
Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies. We just have to accept that we don't understand.
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.
When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have...
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and t...
