Quotes About Understanding

I will not flirt with you or embarrass you. Besides, I am quite sure that if you were willing to marry a Bennet girl, it would be Lizzie. I cannot imagine any man who truly knows her will ever find another woman who can compare to her. I suspect knowing her has made your search for a suitable wife even harder." Darcy

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Yes, I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far better; but let's face it — you weren't listening then either.

Everything was perfect. I sensed that I knew everything and had no questions to ask.

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like. They care. That's what I think is important.

Kierkegaard's advice. He suggested that we become subjective toward others and objective toward ourselves. That is, when we judge the actions of others, we should put ourselves in their place, trying to understand how they see themselves and their world. And when we judge ourselves, we should see ourselves as others see us, overcoming the ease with which we find extenuating circumstances for ourselves.

everyone wants insight into others, few people are as willing to look so intently at themselves.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?" THOMAS MERTON

Sad Fact of Life— Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever.

Why do women love to talk about love?" Giorgio asks. "Why don't men, is more the question," Ana says.

He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth

You have any questions, come to me, but don't have any questions. Are there any questions?

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with. And then don't do it.

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.

We must design for the way people behave, not for how we would wish them to behave.

Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.

What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

Living is more important than acceptance - acceptance is not as important as understanding. - Donald Allen Kirch

Relationships are like powerful moods that people share.