Understanding The Impossible Quotes

#1. One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.

Robin Hobb

#3. Jessica put out her hand and braced herself against the door jamb. She experienced one of those rare moments when understanding of the world alters and a previously impossible thing is admitted, if not understood.

Audrey Niffenegger

#4. Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

Ai Weiwei

#5. It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

Clement Of Alexandria

#6. History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past ... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

Alan Bullock

#7. The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#8. I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Alan Dershowitz

#9. To understand possible means to understand impossible.

Dejan Stojanovic

#10. One day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love.

Jose Luis Peixoto

#11. More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#12. The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.

Yamada Koun

#13. The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

Mao Zedong

#14. Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible.

Tracy Deebs

#15. It is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

Rebecca West

#16. In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#17. I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both

Bernhard Schlink

#18. It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

Joshua Reynolds

#19. It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.

Odilon Redon

#20. Working for Spider was difficult. He was reasonable, but only when circumstances permitted; understanding of difficulties, yet completely unaffected by them. And he expected impossible things in an impossible timeframe.

Ilona Andrews

#21. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Marshall McLuhan

#22. I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

Malcolm Gladwell

#23. Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

Dallas Willard

#24. The task of understanding a culture built on the oral tradition is impossible to students steeped in the written tradition. p.55

Harold A. Innis

#25. Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

Patrick Rothfuss

#26. Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

Jane Rule

#27. The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Alain De Botton

#28. The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

Kevin Kelly

#29. I like to be perfectly open and sincere, and yet it is impossible to be sincere to all of one's self at once, so for the deepest understanding one must seek those with whom one can be most truly one's self and never be blind to the ineffable drollery of it all.

Everett Ruess

#30. It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

Joseph Goebbels

#31. At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.

David Cronenberg

#32. She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after ... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.

Neal Stephenson

#33. It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding.

Upton Sinclair

#34. If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again.

Primo Levi

#35. An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.

Jon Krakauer

#36. The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Socrates

#37. It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

Billie Jean King

#38. Faith does not come from our understanding. It comes from the heart. We do not believe because we understand; we understand because we believe (see Heb. 11:6). We'll know when our mind is truly renewed, because the impossible will look logical.

Bill Johnson

#39. Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.

Richard Russo

#40. Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.

Angela Bassett

#41. Understanding the intricacies involved in raising someone with a physical or mental challenge for those who have never experienced it is like trying to understand anything foreign; impossible, though definitely worth doing anyway.

Lynette Louise

#42. It is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.

Richard Feynman

#43. The once deep reservoirs filled with our vast emotional understanding have evaporated over the generations and we are now nothing more than a shallow cesspool of impossible expectations

Phillip McCarron

#44. If someone says: That's impossible.

You should understand it as:
According to my very limited experience and narrow understanding of reality, that's very unlikely

Paul Buchheit