“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, reddit.com
“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Ameri…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org
“I don’t believe in soul mates, but there’s an understanding between us that I just haven’t felt before, or at least, not for a long time. It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.”— Jose Saramago, amazon.com
“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself, but others.”— Shannon Alder, facebook.com
“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“What mother and daughter understand each other, or even have sympathy for each other's lack of understanding”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“I think I’m a mixture of simplicity and complexes, but I’m beginning to understand myself now.”— Marilyn Monroe, marilynmonroe.ca
“Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself. . .”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Compassionately understand that everyone is on his or her own path and, furthermore, honor where everyone is on that journey at every moment. No fear, no hatred, bigotry or animosity, just deep understanding, empathy, love, and respect for all beings.”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com