Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

You always admire what you really don't understand.

There are many things that I don't understand.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

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

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

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

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.

The more I see, the less I know.

Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say sometimes I act like I don't see you? I don't even know where to look! Living with you around is like is like living with a permanent dazzle. The fact that you even like me, or look at me, or brush by me, or hug me, or hold me, is so surprising that after it's over I have to go back through it a dozen times in my head to savor it and try and figure out what it was like because I was too busy being astounded while it was happening.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

The reason the public loves me is that they understand everything that I do. The reason they love you is that they understand nothing of what you do.

I don't think I even understand the full meaning of athletics.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.