Understanding Quotes

"People assume that we’re going to have a perfect understanding of things, but things aren’t that simple." "Go into meetings prepared to listen and learn. Don’t expect to brief or be briefed, but to engage and understand" "Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not" "You don’t look down on them and say ‘You’re a fool for being so sad.’ You say ‘I’m sad too, man, I know. I get it.’" "In mathematics you don’t understand things, you just get used to them" "What you know is a function of what you have been exposed to" "You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what it's like to be me." "A man who won’t listen can’t hear" "Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy." "Live your life. The truth of the matter is, play the game which you understand best. " "I read, and I've always kept reading. It's a way to understand the world." "The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion" "Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is knowledge we have lost in information?" "Forgiveness does not mean excusing" "As we grow older we lose illusons but gain experience and understanding."