understanding

As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

Aronson's first law:People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

I'll just quote myself for now; actually, I'll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins responded to a post I made when I was feeling 'pissy.'"Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves." ~ David Jenkins, 2013

Even so, I__ somebody.I__ the Discoverer of Nature.I__ the Argonaut of true sensations.I bring a new Universe to the UniverseBecause I bring the Universe to itself.

People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else's.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe that__ inherently impossible, because impressions are, by their very nature, cumulative _ the sum of all your interactions with and perceptions of things.

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand.

None of us can choose where we shall love...

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

It was the yearning she related to. Shriver seemed to understand the specific human pain of wanting and pushing away at the same time. It left her with a gorgeous ache, and when she turned the last page of the book and closed the cover, Norah's connection to the writer felt absolute. It was a breathless, consuming rapture....