Quotes About Understanding

Carl Jung once said that 'your vision will become clear only when you can look

Wisdom without proper tools for its application is no wisdom at all.

an instant I considered calling security myself, but, realizing that this might be someone in need, I assumed a

Solo oímos lo que estamos preparados para oír

esclarecimiento.

La vida es demasiado valiosa como para malgastarla con gente que no te entiende. Con gente que no está en la misma onda. Con gente que tiene unos valores distintos y un listón más bajo que el tuyo. Y con una disposición mental, emocional, física y espiritual distinta.

remember, some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. Which

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." —Friedrich Nietzsche

Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole.

Ikviens cilv?ks savas redzeslauka robežas pie?em par pasaules robež?m.

Y en lo que respecta a las relaciones, solo me rodeo de seres humanos que estimulen mi alegría, que me den paz y me animen a ser un hombre mejor. La vida es demasiado valiosa como para malgastarla con gente que no te entiende.

I can't love you if I cannot love myself," he offered.

No tengas el menor reparo en preguntar lo que sea, por más básico que parezca. Las preguntas son el modo más efectivo de suscitar el conocimiento.

To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.

We Americans are reluctant to learn a foreign language of our own species, let alone another species. But imagine the possibilities. Imagine the access we would have to different perspectives, the things we might see through other eyes, the wisdom that surrounds us. We don't have to figure out everything by ourselves: there are intelligences other than our own, teachers all around us. Imagine how much less lonely the world would be.

Life is both a particle and a wave, Lacey taught me, and also it's neither. But only when no one is watching. Once you measure it, it has to choose. It was the act of witnessing that turned nothing into something, collapsed possibility clouds into concrete and irrevocable truth. I'd only pretended to understand before, but I understood now: When no one was watching, I was a cloud. I was all possibilities.

That was the strange thing about translation, speaking someone else's words in a voice that somehow was and wasn't your own. You could fool yourself into believing you understood the meaning behind the words, but-as my father had explained long before I was old enough to get it-words and meaning were inseparable. Language shapes thought; I speak, therefore I think, therefor I am.

Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.

They were joking, but it was a serious conversation. They were often like that, Mary and her granny, when they were alone together.

We can't choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Everyone wants a revelation, but no one wants to be revealed.

And therefore, according as any one is more anxious in demanding a reason, by so much will he be the firmer in preserving his faith.9

understanding they in their turn have played on them. Our soul sometimes takes its own revenge: <> What we see and hear when agitated by anger we do not see as it is:

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.