Quotes About Understanding

the time he spent on Saturday morning, crafting a response to Al's latest text message on the subject. He finally chose brevity over further argument: Haven't changed my mind, but no hard feelings or bitterness this end. Hope all goes well & let's get a beer when you're next in town.

Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things

and in spite of everything he was going through, she too was tired, she too had personal worries, and would have appreciated just a little effort.

If only she could come inside his head and see what was there, Strike thought, she'd understand that she occupied a unique place in his thoughts and in his affections.

I can quite understand your having a horror of public meetings and… of the rabble that frequents them. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

The corners of his mouth twitched, but as Robin didn't see him smiling, he felt no compulsion to explain.

Speak so that I can understand you.

You could forgive Brenner a lot, once you saw what 'e'd witnessed, what 'e'd been through . . . but that's true of everyone really, innit? Once you know, ev'rything's explained. It's a shame you often don't know until it's too late . . .

She couldn't help but feel a certain vicarious embarrassment.

You can't just ignore me and cut me off and refuse all compromises. I can't live like this.

They beamed at each other: for a moment, Robin thought she saw the idea of hugging her cross Strike's mind, but instead he held out his hand and shook hers.

Cuando sabemos cómo ha sido su vida, lo entendemos mejor. Es una lástima que, muchas veces, no lo sepamos hasta que ya es demasiado tarde.

Intuition, they called it, but Strike knew it to be the reading of subtle signs, the subconscious joining of dots.

she was tired of being taken for granted in ways Strike didn't recognize.

Rubenfeld spoke no Hebrew. His mind was racing to come up with something—anything—that these wild-eyed dirt farmers would understand. He threw his arms in the air and yelled the only Yiddish words he could think of. "Gefilte fish! Gefilte fish! Shabbes! Shabbes!

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain

But perhaps revelation often comes when you're not looking for it, resolution when you don't realize you need it.

I learned a lesson I never had as a politician: that we cannot properly lead those with whom we have not shared suffering.

not say and Max had known better than to ask.

learned a lesson I never had as a politician: that we cannot properly lead those with whom we have not shared

understanding consists in reducing one type of reality to another." Claude Levi-Strauss

A Foundational system serves not so much to prop up the house of mathematics as to clarify the principles and methods by which the house was built in the first place.

Men only give you what they give you...when they know they can't give you what you want.

Ho un amico che non ama Dickens. Non so se compatirlo o picchiarlo.