Understanding Quotes - Page 18

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Time spent worrying - about anything - provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.

I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn't understand, and I understood almost nothing.

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they serve us because they contribute to understanding.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

At a certain level of learning and understanding,
right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest.

If you cant' explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.

Learn to understand your energy and how you create with your energy.

We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.

Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –