Understanding Things Quotes:

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

topic: Life, Encouraging, Being Strong, Live Life To Its Fullest, Marie

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Make Peace Not War, Inspirational Science

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Dream, Inspirational Achievement, Mind Heart

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual, Social Interaction, Inner Darkness

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

- Harper Lee

source: Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

topic: Positivity, Sunshine, Views, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Inspirational, Change, Wise, Inspirational Harry Potter, First Steps

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

- Charles Kettering

topic: Life, Wisdom, Knowledge, Knowing And Understanding, Knowledge And Understanding

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

- Kurt Lewin

source: Attributed in "Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995" by Charles W. Tolman, (p. 31), 1996.

topic: Business, Trying, Want, Computer Language, Understanding Things

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Mom, Grandmother, Science, Nans, Mother And Grandmother

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

- John von Neumann

source: Quoted in Gary Zukav, The DancingWu Li Masters (1979)

topic: Science, Men, Mathematics, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics By Mathematicians

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Incomprehension, Mind Opening

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Time, Understanding, Masters, Understanding Things

Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.

- Edward Boyden

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Reading, Thinking, Ideas, Understanding Things

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Forget, States, Understanding Things

I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.

- Jeff Lindsay

source: Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.37, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Believe, Black And White, Thinking, Gray Area, Understanding Things

...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing Itself, can hardly be ignorant of the things which proceed from It and of which It is the source. This, then, is how God knows all things, not by understanding things, but by understanding Himself.

- Pope Dionysius

topic: Christian, Knowing, Understanding, Understanding Things

I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people to change their perspective. I enjoy pushing myself into learning and understanding things from a very different point of view. It's scary to do that. It's scary to kind of put yourself in somebody else's position.

- Morgan Spurlock

topic: Thinking, Views, Perspective, Different Points Of View, Disservice

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

- Jon Ronson

source: "Jon Ronson gets serious about Ashley Madison and Twitter-shaming". Interview with Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2015.

topic: Smart, Understanding, Trying, Of Context, Understanding Things

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

- Edmund Husserl

source: Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

topic: Offering, Understanding, Criticism, Understanding Things