Quotes of: Greater-understanding Keyword

Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On one hand, simulations of the future may produce out...

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

If the followers of the Oversoul are kept blind, if they can't judge the Oversoul's purpose for themselves, then they aren't freely choosing between good and evil, or between wise and foolish, but are only choosing to subsume themselves in the purpos...

Orson Scott Card

I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end b...

Peter Jackson

I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how coul...

Samwise Gamgee

Sometimes when I'm having a boring interview on the telephone, and I'm trying to think about something else because the questions are too boring, and I start looking around the room where I work, you know, full of books piled up to the sky, all diffe...

Noam Chomsky

May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding, and leads you to freedom....

Elizabeth Lesser

Pi Patel: For castaways who must share their lifeboats with large, dangerous carnivores, it is advisable to establish a territory as your own. The following course of action is recommended. Step one: Choose a day when waves are moderate, but regular....

Life of Pi

Frank Childers: I told you I ain't got no boy, now why don't you get on outta here and let me be. You ain't no kin to me. Karl: [after a pause] I learned to read some. I read the Bible quite a bit. I can't understand all of it, but I reckon I underst...

Sling Blade

Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between people. This is true in political situations. The quality and depth of the politics evolving from a group depends in large part on their understanding ...

Adrienne Rich

If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simultaneously by two sources of order, Yet who seeing...

Love

Understanding character is a vital part of the process of finding a relationship partner and developing a strong and vibrant relationship together.

Creating Excellent Relationships: The Power of Character Choices

Remember, morality is God’s standard, not humankind’s standard. So it is important that we understand the process that God used to bring us his wisdom, truth and historical perspective.

The Christian Faith

If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

The Collected Poems

If someone deceives and victimizes another, understand that he would do, at least, the same to you.

Children of the Apocalypse, Second Edition: Volume One: West Port

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

A Circle of Quiet

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.

Casa Rossa

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Cutting for Stone

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World

I understand, gentlemen,” John Kennedy said. “If you find that life it’s not easy, let me tell you, death is worse.

Double Life: The JFK Assassinations