Barack Obama Quotes

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Language cares.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

Listening is the essence of anything.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.