understanding Quotes

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."

“If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.”

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

The best sign that you deeply understand something is your ability to teach it.

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple."

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

"I now see the necessity of a beginning."

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for... ...