Understanding Quotes - Page 4

• Unless we remember we cannot understand.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Memories, Remember

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.133, RosettaBooks

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• So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Misunderstood, Silent

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• That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

  Doris Lessing

  Education, Learning, Intelligence

  DORIS LESSING (1969). “THE FOUR-GATED CITY”

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• When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mind, Mythology, Power Of Myth

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

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• To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Friendship, Marriage

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• If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wish, Want, Philosopher

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• In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as a whole, not merely a part of it, that must survive. This is the indigenous understanding. It is the understanding in a global sense. We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Simple, People, Decision

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• One can do something if one can see and understand it.

  Claude Monet

  Can Do Something, Can Do, Ifs

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Folks never understand the folks they hate.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Happiness, Success

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.523, Delphi Classics

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• For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were actively building. I remember reading Sterling's Islands in the Net and suddenly understanding the disruptive potential of technology once it got out into the street. Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn't the future 15 minutes out - it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Reading, Kids, Technology

  "How Cyberpunk Saved Sci-Fi" by Paolo Bacigalupi, www.wired.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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• I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beauty, Patience, Doe

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• The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, He Man, Laughable

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• Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Confusion, Confusing

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

  Omar Khayyam

  Carpe Diem, Trying, Looks

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• If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

  Nelson Goodman

  Given, Clear, Explanation

  Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain

  Ruth Graham

  Jesus, Husband, Men

  Ruth Bell Graham (2001). “Never let it end: poems of a lifelong love”, Baker Pub Group

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• Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

  John Stott

  Christian, Character, Unity

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Acts”, p.27, InterVarsity Press

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• Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our deepest understanding wherein we have the capacity for universal response.

  Lawren Harris

  Eye, Doors, Essentials

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• There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

  Marian Engel

  Art, Differences, Art And Life

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• Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.

  Sara Genn

  Artist, Order, Doe

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• With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Needs, Who We Are, Way

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• The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

  Matthew Collings

  Misunderstood, Painful, Painful Things

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• My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.

  Doris McCarthy

  Painting, Guilty, Feels

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• The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each other: all the rest of 'reality' has vanished. This allows us to see those elements from a new point of view and perhaps to reach a better understanding.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Reality, Views, Elements

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