Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Lamb

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charlie Kaufman

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.

Charlie Munger

I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.

Bill Johnson

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hilbert

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Antony Beevor

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

Antonin Artaud

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Romesh Gunesekera

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Vince Carter

You don't know what to expect. The only way you can really understand it is just being in it.

Carl Jung

The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.

Carolyn Porco

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

Black Elk

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

Betty Smith

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

Bill Gates

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

Bill Gates

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Leroy Hood

If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

Ai Weiwei

My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

Bill Keller

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

Julian Fellowes

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

Jane Siberry

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

Burt Rutan

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

Bryant H. McGill

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.