I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own..

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends..

Lack of understanding is always painful..

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging..

I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself an understanding of what not t….

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and leve….

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else..

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually ….

Acceptance comes through understanding..

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says..

He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him t….

Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles interact with each other and s….

When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish….

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect unde….

Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by ….

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive..

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion..

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen….

Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to exp….

If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what busines….

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways..