New Understanding Quotes

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

I was 30 when I did 'The Matrix.' When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way.

Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

Look, I had a great experience in the booth. I saw a different perspective.

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.

Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.

It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

Rereading, we find a new book.

I didn’t have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.