9 Albert Einstein Quotes on Understanding

Albert Einstein quotes on understanding

32. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

86. Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientist do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

171. A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

173. Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

226. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

234. The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility: The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle. -- Einstein, 'Physics and Reality,' Journal of the Franklin Institute, March 1936

235. The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

272. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

278. Like other great scientists he does not fit the boxes in which popular polemicists like to pigeonhole him. ... It is clear for example that he had respect for the religious values enshrined within Judaic and Christian traditions ... but what he understood by religion was something far more subtle than what is usually meant by the word in popular discussion.