Quotes About Understanding

A man must learn to recognize values.

Sonrió una vez más. Siempre sonreía como si las corridas de toros constituyeran un secreto especial entre nosotros, un secreto verdaderamente extraño, sorprendente y profundo que compartíamos nosotros dos. Sonreía siempre, como si aquel secreto nuestro tuviera algo de lascivo para los extraños, que nosotros entendíamos perfectamente, pero que no podía explicarse a los demás porque nadie lo entendería.

He was nervous, and I did not try to help him any.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad. After

It's not cowardly to know what is foolish. -Neither is foolish to know what is cowardly.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

it is always a mistake to know an author

The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.

and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He

We never argued about these things because I kept my mouth shut about things I did not like.

Good," said Johnny, smiling happily. "Now we are all good friends again. In a war we must all be careful not to hurt each other's feelings.

I feel better about him now," young Tom said. "You know at school somebody said David was my half brother, not my real brother, and I told him we didn't have half brothers in our family. I wish I didn't worry so much though, papa.

El secreto de la sabiduría, del poder y del conocimiento es la humildad

Ä°yiyim. Git sen. Ben biraz yataca??m. ÖÄŸleye doÄŸru kalkar?m. Ama Mr. Turner öÄŸle vakti William Campbell'in odas?na geldiÄŸinde William Campbell uyuyordu, Mr Turner da hayatta nelerin deÄŸerli olduÄŸunu bildiÄŸi için onu uyand?rmad?.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and only could be hurt truly by what happened to others. He believed this, wrongly of course since he did not know then how one's capacities can change, nor how the other could change, and it was a comfortable belief.

She did not like to hear the really bad nor tragic things, but no one does, and having seen them I did not care to talk about them unless she wanted to know how the world was going. She wanted to know the gay part of how the world was going; never the real, never the bad.

Le garçon vit que le vieil homme respirait, puis il vit les mains du vieil homme et il se mit à pleurer. Il sortit très doucement pour aller chercher du café et pleura tout le long du chemin.

had stopped at the Montoya for several years. We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.

I am afraid to die, Pilar,' he said. 'Tengo miedo de morir. Dost thou understand?' " 'Then get out of bed,' I said to him. 'There is not room in one bed for me and thee and thy fear all together.

We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking.

Sus ojos podían continuar mirando y mirando cuando todos los demás ojos hubiesen dejado de mirar.