Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things..

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though un….

Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It w….

It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the….

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price..

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding..

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they sile….

Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible..

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life..

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world….

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance..

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete..

I know that much of the structure and plan of the universe is beyond my understanding and not at all similar to anything of our earthly world that I ….

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your ….

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels..

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action..

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like ….

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world..

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive..