When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: understanding regret stupidity duty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. —Upton Sinclair More about this quote Tags: understanding prejudice learning knowledge money salary Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We put our truths together in pieces, but you use nails, and I use glue. You mend with staples. I mend with screws. You stitch what I would bandage. Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: you can look at a scar and see hurt or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand. —Sheri Reynolds More about this quote Tags: truth understanding mending fixing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be. —Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride More about this quote Tags: understanding reality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith. —Vivienne de Watteville More about this quote Tags: understanding love reality kindness beauty learning discovery regret faith loss effort greatness opportunity generosity envy agony remorse Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. —Rudyard Kipling More about this quote Tags: understanding learning memory countries smell foreignness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. —Putt's Law More about this quote Tags: technology understanding management Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What mother and daughter understand each other, or even have sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? —Maya Angelou More about this quote Tags: understanding sympathy mother daughter Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our lives don't really belong to us, you see — they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding. —Paul Auster More about this quote Tags: understanding life ownership effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own. —Thomas Friedman More about this quote Tags: understanding difference logic mistake math Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit. —William Saroyan More about this quote Tags: understanding knowledge spirit doctors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world only goes round by misunderstanding. —Charles Baudelaire More about this quote Tags: understanding world misunderstanding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. —Diane Arbus More about this quote Tags: understanding love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time. —Jane Wagner More about this quote Tags: understanding life awe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? —Philip Roth More about this quote Tags: understanding intelligence manufacturing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email