Understanding Quotes

"To understand, I destroyed myself. The curious will come after me to know why I disappeared." "Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another." "The universe is not obliged to make sense to you." "Experimentation is the true fountainhead of all knowledge." "Only by questioning what we don't understand do we lead ourselves to discovery." "Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation" "Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand" "The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude." "I don't want to believe I want to know" "There are naive questions tedious questions ill-phrased questions questions put after inadequate self-criticism But every question is a cry to understand the world There is no such thing as a dumb question" "The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if we cannot understand them" "To understand is to forgive" "We arrive at truth, not by reason only, but also by the heart" "The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason" "The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery" "Our job is not to judge" "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom" "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" "Don’t let the little things divide you when your agreement on the big things can bind you." "Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction"