Quotes about Understanding

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

Make things as simple as possible but no simpler

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.