Understandable Quotes (page 176)

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• understanding
• creating
• created

What I cannot create, I do not understand. Richard P. Feynman

• children
• study
• understanding

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them. Wilfred Owen

• power
• chance
• understanding

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile. I didn't bring you up only to move across sure ground. I didn't teach you to think that everything must be within our control or understanding. Did I? For, if I did, I was wrong. I fyou won't... Mark Helprin

• caring
• understanding
• hard

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from this the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much, but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us? Catherine II

• reading
• understanding
• lawyer

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. Will Rogers

• understanding
• understand
• knowingly

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized. Rafael Sabatini

• change
• understanding
• people

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why. Nicholas Sparks

• dream
• understanding
• god

You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand. Paulo Coelho

• heart
• conscience
• may

For when God is said by these things to try men and prove them, to see what is in their hearts and whether they will keep His commandments or no, we are not to understand, that it is for His own information, or that He may obtain evidence Himself of their sincerity (for he needs no trials for His information); but chiefly for their conviction, and to exhibit evidence to their consciences...So when God tempted or tried Abraham with that difficult command of offering up his son, it was not for... Jonathan Edwards

• eyes
• reading
• past

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now this clear- eyed, fine-headed youth, who looked something like a student to her, made fun of it. It was poor to him, not worth reading. She looked down, and for the first time felt the pain of not understanding. Theodore Dreiser

• women
• death
• science

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death. Carl Sagan

• understanding
• points
• know

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein

• god
• love
• random

Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is... One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation... Poverty is often produced by a rejection of God's love, by man's basic and tragic tendency to close in on himself, thinking himself to be self-sufficient or merely an insignificant and ephemeral fact, a "stranger" in a random universe...The human being develops when ... his soul comes to know itself and the truths that God has implanted... Joseph Ratzinger

• understanding
• something
• same things

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing. Mitch Albom

• father
• children
• heart

It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives. Mitch Albom