Connected Quote by Marvin Minsky

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and…

— Francis Bacon

As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us…

— Matthew Carter

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision.…

— Bodhidharma

There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just…

— Frederick Lenz

Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented."…

— Marvin Minsky

Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like…

— Margaret Cavendish

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction…

— Ada Lovelace

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

— Jostein Gaarder

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

— Tsutomu Shimomura

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

— Robert Delaunay

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

— David Sedaris