Quotes About Understanding

Shouting something didn't make it any more possible.

Marcia," said Milo. "That was Jenna. I know my child." "And I know mine," said Marcia. "I mean - I know Septimus.

Marcia,' zei hij heel ernstig. 'Er is iets wat je goed moet begrijpen. Níémand is bij machte een Leerling terug te halen van de Queeste.' 'Kletskoek', zei Marcia.

He was very impressed - and touched - by what he found. He realised that, during the dark winter evenings by the fire, when he had often talked about his time in the Young Army, Marcia had not only listened to his descriptions of the night exercises, she had remembered them.

The need to do something tends to trump the need to understand what needs to be done.

How can we assert and test hypotheses if there are no such things as assertions that can be evaluated as true or false? How can we design experiments if there is not such thing as design? How can we explain anything if we do not assert anything and if others cannot understand it?

We sometimes cannot conceive of how the new paradigm could be true or see the reasons to reject an old paradigm until we have started looking at the world through the lens of the new paradigm.

Angus Stevenson

Angus Stevenson

If more people were screamin', I could relax.

You have to be able to access the profoundly spiritual understanding that people's actions, even their very identity, are not the whole truth of who they are.

Hartmann had the ideas and Fibich did the worrying: it suited them both perfectly.

He had always shuddered at the cruelty of both stories, and in so doing had lost any simple beliefs, which had not, in any case, persisted after childhood, but having thought about the matter he preferred Pandora to Eve. Pandora let loose Discord, but at the bottom of the box discovered Hope. There was thus the relief of something saved, essential to any story, although when hope outlasted expectation the outcome was disillusion. That he was beginning to understand.

Women, after pursuit on his part, had found him disappointing in a way he had never fully understood. His appearance, he supposed, was misleading: he was tall, and to all intents and purposes agreeable to look at, but his longing — for home, for love, for consolation — let him down.

Let me tell you what you need, Edith, he said. Not again, she thought. I have just told you what I need and I know what that is better than you do. 'Yes, I know you think you know better than I do,' he said, as her head shot up in alarm.

For that is how he saw me, she thought, and out of love for him that is how I tried to be.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

I have been too harsh on women, she thought, because I understand them better than I understand men. I know their watchfulness, their patience, their need to advertise themselves as successful. Their need never to admit to a failure. I know all that because I am one of them.

Although it was shadowy and dark, Bim could see as well as by the clear light of day that she felt only love and yearning for them all, and if there were hurts, these gashes in her side that bled, then it was only because her love was imperfect and did not encompass them thoroughly enough, and because it had flaws and inadequacies and did not extend to all equally.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

Sherman Alexie: Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.