Quotes About Understanding

In children we often see this path to knowledge quite overtly. The child takes something apart, breaks it up in order to know it; or it takes an animal apart; cruelly tears off the wings of a butterfly in order to know it, to force its secret. The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

a dificuldade da tarefa não deve ser razão para que nos abstenhamos de tentar conhecer-lhe os óbices, assim como as condições de sua realização

Du bist der einzige Mensch, den ich liebhatte, obwohl ich ihn kannte.

O mnogim su stvarima razgovarali, a još su ih više prešutjeli.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

Educationalists who think they can understand the young are enthusiasts. Youth does not want to be understood; it wants only to be let alone. It preserves itself immune against the insidious bacillus of being understood. The grown-up who would approach it too importunately is as ridiculous in its eyes as if he had put on children's clothes. We may feel with our youth, but youth does not feel with us. That is its salvation.

T]his is really the only thing: just to sit quietly, like this. They understand of course, they agree, they may even feel it so too, but only with words, only with words, yes that is it - they feel it, but always with only half of themselves, the rest of their being taken up by with other things, they are so divided in themselves that none feels it with his whole essence;

The simplest and the most incredible thing in the world had come true again: two people speaking to each other, each for himself; and sounds, called words, shaped the same images and feelings in that palpitating mass behind the skull, and out of meaningless vibrations of the vocal chords and their unexplainable reactions in the viscous gray convolutions, skies suddenly grew again in which were mirrored clouds, brooks, past times, growth and decay and hard-won wisdom.

There is no guilt in feelings ever.

People tend to ask too many questions in love,and once you begin really wanting to know the answers,love is on its way out.

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

??????? ????? ??????????? ??????? ?? ?????. ??? — ???????? ??????? ??????????. Mitleid ist der nutzloseste Artikel, den es auf der Welt gibt«, sagte ich ärgerlich.»Es ist die Kehrseite der Schadenfreude, das sollten Sie wissen.«

Armastus teeb naise teravmeelseks, mehe aga võtab juhmiks.

Jaut?t otram noz?m? v?l joproj?m izvair?ties no izš?iroš? spieduma. Es gan ar? ?sten?b? negaid?ju atbildi no jums. B?t?b? esmu jaut?jis tikai pats sev. Bet dažbr?d to var izdar?t, tikai jaut?jot otram.

No one will understand us – because in front of us there is a generation of men who did, it is true, share the years out here with us, but who already had a bed and a job and who are going back to their old positions, where they will forget all about the war – and behind us, a new generation is growing up, one like we used to be, and that generation will be strangers to us and will push us aside.

Taktas yra tylus susitarimas nematyti kits kito klaid? ir netaisyti j?.

My healthy blood was powerless to cure the sick blood of my beloved. That was beyond understanding. And so is death.

We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so. It is not their way to protest what they already know. When my mother says to me dear boy, it means much more than when another uses it.

Vienatv? ieško kelion?s draugo, neklausdama, kas jis. Kas to nesupranta, tas niekada nebuvo vienišas, o tik vienas.

But you will understand me anyways, even without words. Everything is so new to me that I cannot express it; I didn't know that my breathe could love, that my nails could love, that even my death could love. And I don't care how much it will last, or whether I can hold it or not, or whether I will be able to express it properly.

Wenn man so viele Tote gesehen hat, kann man so viel Schmerz um einen einzigen nicht mehr recht begreifen.

Por qué no nos dicen continuamente que vosotros sois unos pobres infelices como nosotros, que vuestras madres viven en la misma angustia que las nuestras y que todos tenemos el mismo miedo a la muerte, el mismo agonizar y los mismos dolores? ¡Perdóname, camarada! ¿Cómo podías ser mi enemigo? Si tiráramos estas armas y este uniforme, tú podrías ser mi hermano, al igual que Kat y Albert.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death." - Paul Baumer

Vai katr? zi?? kaut kam arvien j?b?t paties?bai? - Laikam ne. K?p?c? - Es nezinu. Bet iesp?jams, ka b?tu maz?k karu, ja cilv?ki tik ?oti negrib?tu p?rliecin?t cits citu par savas personisk?s paties?bas pareiz?bu.