Understanding Quotes - Page 11

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

John Dufresne

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.

Roland Barthes

Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.

Rosie Thomas

I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

Rachel Hartman

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

Lisa Alther

cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and

Confucius

For throughout history, the synthesizing impulse has proved a powerful even world-changing, tool for understanding the universe, capable of penetrating the intricate,contradictory web of surface phenomena to reveal the universal,unified cosmos beneath--that fundamental,unchanging phenomenon we call truth.

Gerard Helferich

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

Tamora Pierce

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.

Patrick Wilson

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.

Gene Wolfe

Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.

Diet Eman

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

Siri Hustvedt

The small smiles everybody wanted to try to figure out – they meant nothing, really. She wasn't so good at talking and the smiles made up for it. They filled the spaces in which she ought to have answers for things with something that gave people more questions.

C. JoyBell C.

Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?

Lionel Suggs

I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior.

Criss Jami

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from supersition; the light of experience, from arrogrance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.1620 - Francis Bacon

Carl Sagan

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.

W.G. Sebald

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

Ann Beattie

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

A. Lee Martinez

The great soul understands the small-minded.

Toba Beta

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

Tracy Deebs

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

Libba Bray

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

Anita Brookner

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me

Novala Takemoto

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

Elizabeth Berg

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

Billy Sunday

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

Iris Johansen

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Jane Austen

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

John Knowles

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

Bruce Lee

When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can't see it. And you would never ask someone to drown with a smile on his face.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

Ron Hall

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

Tim Kreider

I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I stayed, the more asinine the attempt seemed, and that what I’d become more interested in is how we believed we could be objective in any way at all, we who each came in with our own personal definitions of kindness, strength, masculinity, femininity, God, civilisation, right and wrong.

Lily King

As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.

Kazuo Ishiguro

You don't have to own something for it to be you. Haven't you ever gone into a gallery and seen a painting and said 'that's me'. Or had a piece of music capture something deep down you didn't even know was there? You realize it's always been part of youl you've just never heard it before.

James L. Rubart

My brother, he says. My brother is dead."And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.

Dana Reinhardt

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

Criss Jami

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

Marcel Duchamp

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

Shannon L. Alder

I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.

Charles B. Rangel

It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.

Willa Cather

A perfect love is not all about devotion and loyalty, it is understanding little tiny things.

M.F. Moonzajer

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.

René Descartes

After all, everyone may not start with the same financial opportunities; however everyone does start with the choice to live their life with integrity, trust, love, respect,understanding for each other and oneself.

Tasha Hoggatt

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

John Rogers Searle

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

Ovid

This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.

CLAMP

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Albert Einstein

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

Paulo Coelho

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

Fernando Pessoa

It is growing up different. It is extreme hypersensitivity. It is a bottomless pit of feeling you're failing, but three days later, you feel you can do anything, only to end the week where you began. It is not learning from your mistakes. It is distrusting people because you have been hurt enough. It is moments of knowing your pain is self inflicted, followed by blaming the world. It is wanting to listen, but you just can’t anymore because your life has been to full of people that have judged you. It is fighting to be right; so for once in your life someone will respect and hear you for a change. It is a tiring life of endless games with people, in order to seek stimulus. It is a hyper focus, so intense about what bothers you, that you can’t pay attention to anything else, for very long. It is a never-ending routine of forgetting things. It is a boredom and lack of contentment that keeps you running into the arms of anyone that has enough patience to stick around. It wears you out. It wears everyone out. It makes you question God’s plan. You misinterpret everything, and you allow your creative mind to fill the gaps with the same old chains that bind you. It narrows your vision of who you let into your life. It is speaking and acting without thinking. It is disconnecting from the ones you love because your mind has taken you back to what you can’t let go of. It is risk taking, thrill seeking and moodiness that never ends. You hang your hope on “signs” and abandon reason for remedy. It is devotion to the gifts and talents you have been given, that provide temporary relief. It is the latching onto the acceptance of others---like a scared child abandoned on a sidewalk. It is a drive that has no end, and without “focus” it takes you nowhere. It is the deepest anger when someone you love hurts you, and the greatest love when they don't. It is beauty when it has purpose. It is agony when it doesn’t. It is called Attention Deficit Disorder.

Shannon L. Alder

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Alice Walker

If you understood everything I said, you’d be me

Miles Davis

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.

Jenny Han

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