Understanding Quotes

I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience it doesn't make sense right away.

In order to understand time, you need to step out of it.
In order to understand yourself, you need to stop being yourself.
Outside of time and outside of yourself - you can find your essence.

God isn't complex. God is simple. And even if he wasn't how dare someone speak to you in riddles and then threaten to judge you if you get the interpretation wrong.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

“Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.”

I know she still wants to be my friend. But after loves confession that's impossible. Because no matter what I say I'm going to make another move, and she'll reject me. She'll be mad because I made a move and I'll be made because she rejected me. And the vicious cycle of love and rejection befalls whatever else there could be.

In London when someone is confronted with eccentricity or something that's strange, they run towards it to better understand it, whereas in the States, if you're confronted with something different, you recoil in terror and run from it.

I can live without many things. But, deprived of a medium with which to create, I would fall apart. If you understand that, you will understand me.

Wonder is more than just admiration. It is a necessary part of our understanding of the universe outside and of the world of man.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

In every bit of honest writing in the world there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards. Which principle, the more one thinks it through, ends exactly with the thought that temporal life can never properly be understood precisely because I can at no instant find complete rest in which to adopt a position: backwards

It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards. Which principle, the more one thinks it through, ends exactly with the thought that temporal life can never properly be understood precisely because I can at no instant find complete rest in which to adopt a position: backwards

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Understanding is having the ability to see things clearly, for what they are and not what they present themselves to be.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.