Quotes About Understanding

Readers of symbols are forever at the mercy of desire.

I think that the effort is to reach a realm of meaning that is not quite sayable. You stay away from what can be said and you try to reach what cant quite be said. Yet it is nevertheless meaningful. And there is such a realm and it is very difficult to talk about. Its not quite nonverbal, but that comes fairly close.

I certainly dont write to exclude anyone.

I am never needlessly obscure--I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

The math is not the territory.

because I want to discover where, precisely, it may be wrong and, if possible, to repair the defect.

Science is not a theory of reality, but a method of inquiry.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

Bobbi doubted there was ever much future for a couple who had nothing in common except heterosexuality.

That was the annoying thing about the kid, who was otherwise okay. Every once in a while, he'd get it before anybody else got it, and when he got it, he got it. So Tiny said to him, "If you got it, give it to us.

Good fences make good neighbors. - John Dortmunder

Han shook his head. Long ago he had told himself that females - mammalian, reptilian, or some biological class yet to be discovered - were beyond his meager powers of comprehension. Better leave them to mystery, he'd often advised himself.

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

Poem to Be Read at 3:00 A.M. by Donald Justice Excepting the diner On the outskirts The town of Ladora at 3 A.M. Was dark but For my headlights And up in One second-story room A single light Where someone Was sick or Perhaps reading As I drove past At seventy Not thinking This poem Is for whoever Had the light on

For only with your help shall They come to see–and with no more Than average daily terror– All things for what they are, All things for what they are.

the Bible does not present what the right human thoughts about God are. The Bible shows the right thoughts of God about humans.

The law is what is read, not what is written.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

People who judge others tell more about Who They Are, than Who They Judge.

When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they're obviously missing something from their lives.

If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?

Those who teach the most about humanity, aren't always human.

You cannot be a positive influence to the "sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them.