Quotes About Understanding

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.   Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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And, Vera . . ." "Yeah." "I want you to know that I love you. I know you know, but I want you to hear me say it. And I know you told me not to start apologizing, but I'm sorry I haven't told you that more often.

Only when I do not search does the purpose become clear.

Please don't give me words; give me a hug. Don't tell me that I'm holding up so well; break down with me and admit our shared wretchedness. Don't feign some bright mountaintop; walk with me through the dark valley where neither of us can utter a word.

The twentieth-century theologian Karl Rahner commented that "God" is the last sound we should make before falling silent, and Saint Augustine, long ago, said, "si comprehendis, non est Deus" (if you understand, that isn't God). All of this formal theologizing is but commentary on that elusive and confounding voice from the burning bush: "I am who am.

Knowledge was gained by association before it was understood by explanation.

If you can learn the practical

No behaviour on our part is more self-centered than the demand to speak and the refusal to listen.

Disagree but don't argue.

Studies have indicated that the tone of voice may be more important than any other element in our response.

We must eliminate nagging with its complaining and contentious spirit because it focuses attention on self rather than on the other person.

That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.

Conan mentally termed the creatures black men, for lack of a better term; instinctively he knew that these tall ebony beings were not men, as he understood the term. No

Each smiled and nodded courteously, and each knew the other lied.

By Crom, though I've spend considerable time among you civilized peoples, your ways are still beyond my comprehension

Once you've internalised the concept that you can't prove anything in absolute terms, life becomes all the more about odds, chances, and trade-offs. In a world without provable truths, the only way to refine the probabilities that remain is through greater knowledge and understanding.

For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary; for those who don't believe in God no explanation is possible.

In (Ancient) Greece the search for knowledge was a linguistic endeavor. I suggest that in China, ideas of valid knowing derived in association with the notion of efficacious arts, or daos, and the central questions that lie behind the philosophical enterprise of early China concern control over action and events rather than understanding; the keys to understanding lay in daos rather than in theories.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

Paradox is the only basket large enough to hold truth: