We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever. " "And he has Brain. " "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain. " There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.
The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.
No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy. . . My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.
There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.
Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I'm sure there are many solutions.
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.
I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious.
How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?
The man who, as is often said, can get away with wearing a trench coat over his dinner jacket, or an old school tie for a belt, is the one who in fact understands best the rules of proper dress and can bend them to suit his own personality and requirements.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear even greater when he realizes the length of time and the particular conditions which were necessary to bring all the living species into existence. This is particularly true since man is the latest result and present climax of this development, the ultimate limit of which, if it is ever reached, cannot be known.
I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.
No one really understands the grief or joy of another.
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.
Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?