The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience rather than understanding that influences behavior.
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
Death borders upon our birth and our cradle stands in the grave.
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness one of which is a lack the other an excess of courage.
Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well now you're picking a friend for life.
Justin Timberlake is everything and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me and that's cool.
Over and over again financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over they ignobly fail because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand namely exactly nothing.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.
You know maybe I was just born in the wrong time but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.