T Quotes
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“To understand disease, you must understand the environment and history.”
“To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.”
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
“To understand everything is to hate nothing.”
Source: Jean-Christophe: Journey's End
“To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism.”
Source: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
“To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!”
“To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!”
“To understand God, is to Love Him. You can't say you love God if you don't know Him. First you must know yourself, to experience God, then you will know Him for who He really is.”
“To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.”
“To understand him you had to understand this: he wasn't human.”
“To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.”
“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”
“To understand how Bitcoin works, you have to first unlearn the fiat economics you have been taught to believe in. Once you do, Bitcoin education becomes the obvious choice.”
“To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment.”
“To understand how much was lost politically, it is first necessary to understand what once existed.”
Source: Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women
“To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.”
“To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.”
“To understand how seriously the people of Noto take the concept of waste, consider the fugu dilemma. Japanese blowfish, best known for its high toxicity, has been a staple of Noto cuisine for hundreds of years. During the late Meiji and early Edo periods, local cooks in Noto began to address a growing concern with fugu fabrication; namely, how to make use of the fish's deadly ovaries. Pregnant with enough poison to kill up to twenty people, the ovaries- like the toxic liver- had always been disposed of, but the cooks of Noto finally had enough of the waste and set out to crack the code of the toxic reproductive organs. Thus ensued a long, perilous period of experimentation. Locals rubbed ovaries in salt, then in nukamiso, a paste made from rice bran, and left them to ferment. Taste-testing the not-quite-detoxified fugu ovary was a lethal but necessary part of the process, and many years and many lives later, they arrived at a recipe that transformed the ovaries from a deadly disposable into an intensely flavored staple. Today pickled fugu ovaries remain one of Noto's most treasured delicacies.”
Source: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
“To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death.”
“To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate something until we’ve understood it.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate something until we’ve understood it.
Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other’s presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define.
Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness. The presence of another person – of any person whatsoever – instantly slows down my thinking, and while for a normal man contact with others is a stimulus to spoken expression and wit, for me it is a counterstimulus, if this compound word be linguistically permissible. When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Yes, talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial, and in them intelligence gleams like an image in a mirror.
The mere thought of having to enter into contact with someone else makes me nervous. A simple invitation to have dinner with a friend produces an anguish in me that’s hard to define. The idea of any social obligation whatsoever – attending a funeral, dealing with someone about an office matter, going to the station to wait for someone I know or don’t know – the very idea disturbs my thoughts for an entire day, and sometimes I even start worrying the night before, so that I sleep badly. When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different: I never learn to learn.
‘My habits are of solitude, not of men.’ I don’t know if it was Rousseau or Senancour who said this. But it was some mind of my species, it being perhaps too much to say of my race.”
“To understand is difficult; to act is easy.”
“To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.”
“To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.”
“To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.”
Source: After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
“To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.”
Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“To understand is to forgive.”
“To understand is to invent.”
Source: Psychology and Epistemology: Towards a Theory of Knowledge
“To understand is to perceive patterns.”
Source: Historical inevitability
“To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.”
“To understand Islam we must go back to Christianity, and to understand the Christian faith we must go back to Judaism, and to understand the religion of Moses we must go back to Hinduism and Egyptology.”
“To understand Jesus Christ, you must know the Language of Heaven.”
Source: God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
“To understand Jesus when he stated that he was the way, the truth and the life, one must first recognize his manner of a walk and believe firmly that his manner is true.”
Source: Excerpts To Exodus
“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”
“To understand karma, you must realize that thoughts are things. The very universe…is composed not of matter but of consciousness. Matter responds, far more than most people realize, to the power of thought. For will power directs energy, and energy in turn acts upon matter. Matter, indeed, is energy.”
“To understand kingdom principles is to teach kingdom principles”
“To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.”
Source: Sayings of J. Krishnamurti
“To understand life is to understand the seasons, in the torment that tears you up and the ecstasy that sends you thrills. To gaze at the vastness, to absorb what lights the sky, and to fill the self with that well of light, to carve the art out of what comes and goes is to walk deeply through this life.”
“To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.”
“To understand me, you have to listen as a human, not as believer or nonbeliever, but as human.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.”
“To understand me, you have to meet me...”
“To understand mismatch, we should note that the human lineage lived for 99% of its evolutionary history in relatively small, mobile, foraging, kin-based groups. It is under these conditions that human psychological mechanisms were shaped by selection. The seeds for mismatch were sown with the advent of agriculture, which resulted in permanently settled living around 10,000 - 20,000 years ago, and this radically altered the human physical and social environment with major implications for eating disorders EDs.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“To understand mismatch, we should note that yhe human lineage lived for 99% of its evolutionary history in relatively small, mobile, foraging, kin-based groups. It is under these conditions that human psychological mechanisms were shaped by selection. The seeds for mismatch were sown with the advent of agriculture, which resulted in permanently settled living around 10,000 - 20,000 years ago, and this radically altered the human physical and social environment with major implications for eating disorders EDs.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“To understand most important ideas in psychology, you need to understand how the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. We assume that there is one person in each body, but in some ways we are each more like a committee whose members have been thrown together to do a job, but who often find themselves working at cross purposes.”
“To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.”
“To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.”
“To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.”
Source: View from the UN